Digital IDs Needed To End 'Mob Rule' Online, Says UK's Security Minister (independent.co.uk)

Digital IDs should be brought in to end online anonymity that permits "mob rule" and lawlessness online, the security minister of United Kingdom has said. From a report: Ben Wallace said authentication used by banks could also by employed by internet firms to crack down on bullying and grooming, as he warned that people had to make a choice between "the wild west or a civilised society" online. He also took aim at the "phoniness" of Silicon Valley billionaires, and called for companies such as WhatsApp to contribute to society over the negative costs of their technology, such as end-to-end encryption. It comes after Theresa May took another step against tech giants, saying they would be ordered to clamp down on vile attacks against women on their platforms. The prime minister will target firms such as Facebook and Twitter as she makes the pitch at the G7 summit this weekend, where she will urge social media firms to treat violent misogyny with the same urgency as they do terror threats. Mr Wallace told The Times: "A lot of the bullying on social media and the grooming is because those people know you cannot identify them. It is mob rule on the internet. You shouldn't be able to hide behind anonymity."

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Unintended consequences

[Charcharodon]

Of course it will be funny when such a system turns into a circular firing squad resulting in the banning of feminists, SJWs, leftist political action committees, and the media from the internet for doing exactly what she is complaining about.

Some of the biggest trolls on the internet are not the kiddies on 4chan or the infamous "alt-right", but the leftists, progressives, and their minions.

Re:Nazi left

[NicknameUnavailable]

Hitler as literally in the national socialist party. The liberals don't want to admit it but he was just a leftist extremist. The issue with promising everyone anything they want and not being able to deliver is that the result is needing to remove the population before it removes you.

Re:Nazi left

[Peter P Peters]

the american spectrum is a little different than the EU spectrum. theresa may is mid-left on our spectrum and soft-right on yours. (because you guys are so far off the left end of the spectrum that you genuinely terrifying even many of our leftists)

Who is 'you' and 'us', you don't really make it clear?
Left and right are relative, so as someone is is neither American nor European, my opinion is that most of Western world is similar relatively speaking except the US. The US is extreme right (relative to everyone else) that the Democrats would be considered Right in any other Western country. I'd go so far as to say the the US is so far right that they are now in the Tinpot Dictatorship spectrum.

Re:His "plan" aside...

[AmiMoJo]

The problem is that the far right calls everyone a racist bigot, so if you decide you are going to stop supporting anything a "racist" says then you end up with no ideology other than the far right. It's the modern silencing tactic, evolved from "political correctness" and (ironically) complaints about identity politics.

There has also been a deliberate policy of confusing the traditional right/left politics and trying to re-frame the far right as the centre. Often this involves trying to dumb down the conversation to absurd levels, such as:

The next time someone says trump is racist because he hates immigrants, see what happens you you introduce a fact such as "legal immigrants are different from illegal immigrants".

That kind of ridiculous straw man is just bait, and if anyone engages with it get they called a racist and a Trump hater and a leftist and then the conversation is swiftly moved on before any real defence has to be made.

The only solution is to stop engaging with this and just present your own narrative, your own compelling argument. Know that you won't get a proper response, know that they will try to change the subject, and just ignore it.