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Washingtonpost.com Wants Identities of Posters

Posted by kdawson on from the solved-problem dept.

mytrip recommends a News.com account of a panel discussion in which the Washington Post's online executive editor Jim Brady argued against anonymity on his site. He's welcome to try to carve out a space for civilized discourse, but it seems that he can't help alienating the Net-savvy whenever he opens his mouth to speak of it. "... he would like to see a technology that could identify people who violate site standards — and if need be — automatically kick them off for good. ... Brady also lamented that closing user accounts doesn't keep bad eggs off a site. They just come back and create new ones ... Brady believes that in the next five years people will be required to identify themselves in some way at many sites. 'I don't know whether we do it with a credit card number, a driver's license or passport ...'"

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  1. end of days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. Rev. 13:16-17

    1. Re:end of days by neomunk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Bad mod.

      Parent MIGHT be a troll, probably IS flamebait, possibly insightful, probably not informative, surely slightly funny to -someone- out there, but an "offtopic" mod is surely nothing more than Evangelical Atheism.

  2. Re:Yeah, great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's the JEWS, stupid.
    They can only maintain their power over us 'goyim' by censoring anybody who dares to tell the truth about them.

    The poor, hard done by Jews, who just happen to run most of the media in the U.S., who just happen to have got most American baby boys to be circumcised (gee, I wonder how THAT happened) so that they (the Jews) can HIDE among you when you try to round them up and expel them all from YOUR country.
    The poor, hard done by Jews who are 50% of the top 100 richest people on Earth...
    The poor, hard done by Jews who get Americans to DIE for their precious Israel in wars against Iraq, and STEAL trillions of your tax dollars for the same...