Poll: For a 24-48 hour period, everyone's real identity is shown next to anything they do online.

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

I have been told at times I am nicer to people online than I am in person. I am cursed with being brutally honest, so at least when I am writing how I feel I can often reread and edit it to not sound as bad as it did the first time it came out, something I cannot do in person because once it is said you can't really hit rewind.

I am not concerned with what I say to others online, my only concern would be my ex that I put in jail finding me to try to kill me again, and stalkers being able to have my address. It isn't like you can go park next to a police car to prevent them from following you home when your address is made public online, so that would be a problem for many women online I would think.

I definitely think having addresses made public like that would keep many women away from the internet because it would be worse than trying to leave a bar, it isn't really safe to do so.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

No, my point was that unless you're watching something illegal, you've got absolutely nothing to hide, and porn isn't something that phases most people.

I know my friends watch porn, hell I've even seen one of their porn histories. If they saw what porn videos I had been watching, it wouldn't bother me in the least.

But who decides what is illegal? That was my example with the violent sex in the UK example. It wouldn't be the first time politicians tried to illegalise something they do every day themselves. They just have the upper hand in terms of position of power.

I think a discussion about bestiality is for a different thread. Though I personally see it as wrong. Most animals don't have recreational sex, so unless you're fucking something like a bonobo, it's most likely abusing or tormenting the animal.

That operator being "most likely", just because they don't have recreational sex doesn't mean they don't enjoy it when they have it. I am sure most male non-Homo sapiens don't feel it as abuse.
It would belong in another thread but is integral to the theme of showing EVERYTHING a person has done on the internet.

 

[RedDeadFred]

People would probably act more civil at first. Then, once the wrong people realized the potential for what they could do with all the information, shit would hit the fan.

 

[Ferisar]

Uh, that's kind of the point of the thread: you've no idea who you associate with if you drag the internet into it. Furries, "Animal Lovers", fringe fetishists, masochists, "fan fic" readers, et cetera et cetera. It's the reality we live in. Unless you have a handle on your friends/colleagues' internet access, you'll never know what they're into (unless you're also in a permanent TMI-based friendship, )

No, my point was that unless you're watching something illegal, you've got absolutely nothing to hide, and porn isn't something that phases most people.

I know my friends watch porn, hell I've even seen one of their porn histories. If they saw what porn videos I had been watching, it wouldn't bother me in the least.

I find a hard time having my friendships based on the legality of their activities, as that tends to favor most everyone whom I don't want to be friends with

And yeah, we all know people have seen pornography. The point remains: you've no idea what people are into, porn or not, unless you're actively aware of it based on the last point I made in that statement, the whole TMI thing. To each their own, though. Obviously not everyone has the same friends.

captcha: seems legit

fk of captcha, m8

 

[Boris Goodenough]

I think it's more that in a lot of cases, violent porn COULD be rape, but because it's too hard to distinguish from consensual sex, so they outlaw it.

Porn COULD be rape; should we ban it too, just be to be sure?

 

[Hagi]

This idea seems to be based on two hilariously wrong assumptions:

1. Anonymity is the reason people act like massive dicks on the internet. Easily disproven by Facebook and pretty much any other social media site. Absolutely no shortage of massive dicks without any anonymity whatsoever. The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory is simply wrong.

2. People aren't occasionally massive raging hypocrites who won't judge others for questionable things they do themselves. Airing all the dirty laundry won't lead to mutual acceptance of each others deviate behaviours as long as they don't cause any harm. It'll just lead to, as the OP predicted, one giant clusterfuck.

So yeah, I concur with the OP. It'd be bad, very bad.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

They did ban it here in the UK.

Porn has been completely banned in the UK? Don't you mean violent porn?

 

[Bertylicious]

When people are anonymous they will be more real and honest than they are in real life. That is the beauty of the internet; the mask you wear is actually your own face. Why would you want to take that away from people? Why would anyone?

As others have pointed out, online anonymity is something of an illusion anyway.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

No. I mean porn. It's banned, but not very well.

ISPs such as BT and Virgin Media block major porn sites until you call them and ask them to enable porn.

Well that's an opt-in system, not a ban.

 

[Fasckira]

Pretty relevant:

Personally however? I dont mind. Most people could find out who I am with relative ease, I dont hide my name and I dont do anything that I'm ashamed of on the internet (any more).

 

[Thaluikhain]

It'd be awful.

People threatening others online often try to get personal details to make their threats worse. Now that information is freely available...no.

Take Anita Sarkeesian for example. Now, whether or not you agree with her videos, I'd hope most people would agree that she shouldn't be sent oodles of rape and death threats. I'd also hope that most people would agree that the people sending her rape and death threats shouldn't be given her personal details, address, family's personal details and address.

Now, this hardly applies to her, any woman talking about feminism of any note will get this. Melissa McEwan wrote about this (again) the other day: http://www.shakesville.com/2014/06/we-need-to-talk-about-this.html

Likewise, in the US, doctors that perform abortions get this sort of treatment. When people find out who is in their family, their family members get this as well.

There was that woman in the US that developed that new safety system for firearms, and she got this, and I think her family as well. That was just a new safety system. People that actually talk about gun control whose details are made public...yeah, it's not good. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/guns-bullying-open-carry-women-moms-texas

 

[Summerstorm]

Hm, wouldn't go online if this was somehow magically the case.

I take very much crae to keep my real name and personal data off the net. If you google my real name only an old homepage of mine will show up as abondoned and you might find a few short stories and roleplaying games i wrote. DONE. No Facebook, no Xing, nothing. I HATE being trackable.

 

[wAriot]

It wouldn't affect me much. My pornographic tastes aren't anything out of the ordinary, and everything else (political views, general opinions of society, etc.) I also share in real life with my family and friends. I don't have much to hide, honestly.

Now, I know I'm most likely in the minority, so I'm completely against this kind of measures. Everyone should be able to share their opinions online, and choose if they want to be known for those opinions or stay partially or totally anonymous.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Meh. All in all, it doesn't really matter. I could tell you my real name and it wouldn't really make any difference- odds are you live hundreds of miles away and the privacy settings on my Facebook account would prevent you from too much of a pain in the arse. Perhaps if I said something absolutely outrageous or if I came across a dedicated troll then I might suffer some retribution, but it's unlikely (I'm fairly sane in my opinions).

My prediction is that trolls would have a field day, and it wouldn't make much difference to most other people (except the crazy ones).