Yes. It should be up to the individual obviously, but my argument is the vast majority when posting in the public square *should* do so under their real names.

That’s not the point, though. Privacy is important, but we’re talking about *public* posts. Ideas.

Only because you (and many others) believe it’s not how it works. The second people stop agreeing to this way of working, it’s over.

You really are deranged by anything Jew-related, aren’t you? Yellow stars were required. I am talking about voluntarily standing up for your fucking right to say what you believe under your own name as is enshrined in the First Amendment of the US consutition and as is championed by any free country.

And you do so knowing it might bother someone, that theoretically some govt might target you specifically (though it’s unlikely) because you think some things are worth taking a risk for, things like free speech rather than the dystopian shit hole the WEF has planned.

I mean FFS, you’re always going on about “the jews” — and how we need to hide behind our handles because the state will get us. This exactly the type of thinking I want my adversaries to have if I’m the State. Divisive and afraid of what I might do.

The last thing I’d want is people of uncommon ancestry to courageously make common cause.

But think of it in game theory terms. It’s a net win to hide and post something rather than nothing for the individual, but at the cost of standing up and actually showing we are the many, and they are the few.

Yes, some people might lose a job, just like some soldiers storming the beach at Normandy lost their lives. But you don’t win the war if no one is willing to fight for the cause.

In this case the cause is a free and prosperous society rather than the dystopian shithole the WEF censor types are trying to bring about.

Everyone wants to blame “The State” but few want to take responsibility for allowing it to do what it does.

Sorry, but your rights must be exercised if you want to keep them.

Yeah because the people are letting them get away with it. People like you who not only refuse to stand up, but are insulting people encouraging them to do so.

Man, if I were part of the State, I’d want everyone to be terrified of my and hiding behind nyms, afraid at any second I was going to jail them.

Keep up the fear mongering, you’re definitely winning!

You should by all means protect your privacy. But when choosing to post to the *public* square, that is not a private communication.

And mployers only get away with driving everyone into the closet about dissenting values because everyone permits it. Maybe even the employer himself agrees with you, but because of no one standing up has to pretend not to!

And if the employer really would can you over a dissenting view in your off-work capacity on social media, that is not really someone you should be working with in the long term.

There are definitely valid reasons for anonymity. Snowden, Assange, Satoshi, that level. Maybe BTC devs too.

But the average person in a western country should post under his real name IMO because not doing so empowers the censor and doing so encourages others to stand up for the truth.

You are not Julian Assange, and I am not arguing anonymity is *never* warranted. From the post which you obviously didn’t read very carefully:

So I understand in an environment where the powerful act with impunity either because they can hide behind large institutions or because their communications and deliberations are placed off limits it’s tempting to level the playing field. The ring quite likely saved Bilbo’s life in The Hobbit, and (temporary) anonymity enabled Snowden to go public with his revelations. In fact, the anonymity of bitcoin creator “Satoshi Nakamoto” was necessary for its resilience and almost-impossible-to-replicate immaculate conception.

So this is not an argument that anonymity is never warranted, but that it should not be the default if you’re a regular person posting what you take to be interesting, true or important in the public square.

sorry, man, I used to this kind of low-signal convo on Twitter, but on NOSTR I expect better.

I didn’t get banned from Twitter. A mob of angry psychos came after me. And many people told me they appreciated the way I stood my ground and didn’t let it shut me up.

But I fundamentally disagree with your premise which is that they are strong, and we are weak. That we need to hide because they’ll get us, and if we show ourselves we’re doomed.

No. If I’m a totalitarian regime I want everyone thinking like that. I want them too scared to stand up.

The last thing I want is every citizen to avail himself of his free speech rights and tell me to fuck off. Then they have a problem.

It is not they who are powerful and hunting me. I’m am the predator and they should be terrified of the reckoning for what they have done the last three years to our basic liberties and to our institutions. I will see to it they are prosecuted to the extent I can.

I just need to persuade frightened people to come along. And I will. One at a time if I have to.

no idea how what you are talking about relates to my post.

Stephan — you obviously did not read the post. Covers Snowden, Satoshi and necessary cases for anonymity. I’m taking about the regular person posting his views in the public square.

And yes, being Jewish, I myself am obviously opened up to jew-haters coming after me.

But my response is “Fuck them. I stand up for my beliefs, and you insulting my ethnicity will never shut me up.”

Reassuring to see people on NOSTR skim, straw man and non-sequitur your posts just like they do on Twitter!

I just had to find the right pressure point — no one here cares if you think the mRNA shot is killing people, no one here cares if you’re on the side of the people rather than the Israeli government, and no one here cares if you think vaccine mandates are violations of the Nuremberg Code.

But argue that people should *voluntarily* have the balls to post under their own names, even though they have the *right* not to do so, and the pearls get clutched hard!

(Many people made good points too, though those were largely addressed in the piece itself.)

From the article:

So I understand in an environment where the powerful act with impunity either because they can hide behind large institutions or because their communications and deliberations are placed off limits it’s tempting to level the playing field. The ring quite likely saved Bilbo’s life in The Hobbit, and (temporary) anonymity enabled Snowden to go public with his revelations. In fact, the anonymity of bitcoin creator “Satoshi Nakamoto” was necessary for its resilience and almost-impossible-to-replicate immaculate conception.

So this is not an argument that anonymity is *never* warranted, but that it should not be the default if you’re a regular person posting what you take to be interesting, true or important in the public square.

The reply is retarded. You can’t dox yourself as doxxing is about having your info shared *against your wishes*.

Yes, I address that power imbalance in the post. But the remedy IMO isn’t to hide, but the opposite. The only reason they can get away with going after your livelihood is that so few people are saying the real shit under their real names. If we all did it, that would end.

It’s like saying — how are we going to storm the castle, we might get killed. Yes, but if 100 million people storm the castle, the castle will surrender.

Key is to convince people that we are the many and they are the few. And anonymity undermines that.

The way you show you believe in your idea is by attaching your name to it. Talk is cheap. Talk without skin in the game is the cheapest.

always with “the jews” Stephan. Can’t respect someone who stoops to that in a respectful discussion like this.