PS: You probably do meet people who share these opinions, in real life or the internet, more often than you think. They just aren't going to admit publicly to thinking this way unless they're really dumb, and you probably don't interact with many really dumb people.
I understand this to be a large part of the reason that google, facebook etc. are trying to steer people towards interacting online with their real names. A lot of what makes this sort of thing possible is the anonymity factor, and the thinking goes that if people aren't anonymous online they'll realize that they will be held accountable for their actions there as much as anywhere else.
I don't have a good sense of either how effective this would be if it became the norm all over the internet, or what the costs would be, but it's the most notable step towards addressing anonymous harrassment I've seen or heard contemplated.
Yeah, removing anonymity suppresses speech by restraining what people feel comfortable saying, not what they think. Of course, giving folks a slanted view of popular opinion can have effects on the things people believe, because most people prefer to have the same opinions as people with whom they self-identify, but it's rather Big Brother-ish, and hardly guaranteed to produce results I'd prefer.
Personally, I don't think anything short of reducing male aggression levels/increasing female aggression levels is going to change the ballance.
There's also a somewhat racist and classist component to the real name policy, coming from the question of how to prove your real name. G+ has been known for freezing people's accounts if their names sound unreal (and freezing their Gmail accounts too), unless they send a scan of their IDs.
The problem is that there are certain classes of people who don't have IDs matching their real name: very poor people in the US and other countries without national ID cards, trans people, the large majority of Hongkongers who go by Western names. The last group is the most at risk, because the Western names they choose are sometimes very unusual, so Google flags and freezes them, and they can't do anything to stop that, since their IDs only list their Chinese names.
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I don't have a good sense of either how effective this would be if it became the norm all over the internet, or what the costs would be, but it's the most notable step towards addressing anonymous harrassment I've seen or heard contemplated.
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Personally, I don't think anything short of reducing male aggression levels/increasing female aggression levels is going to change the ballance.
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The problem is that there are certain classes of people who don't have IDs matching their real name: very poor people in the US and other countries without national ID cards, trans people, the large majority of Hongkongers who go by Western names. The last group is the most at risk, because the Western names they choose are sometimes very unusual, so Google flags and freezes them, and they can't do anything to stop that, since their IDs only list their Chinese names.
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