I see anonymity as a form of identity. I realize there is no way of knowing this from a cursory reading of the laws. I better fix that.
By the way, I have a tinfoil hat of my own.
The system I propose doesn't suggest that you need to be able to trace every digital identity to a "flesh and blood" person.
Most important, and I'm sure you know if you really have your own tin foil hat, cyberspace is not actually anonymous these days. It just *appears* to be anonymous.
The fact that the appearance is not what's really going on is a problem, and one of the reasons we need to elevate peoples' understanding of the issues.
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I see anonymity as a form of identity. I realize there is no way of knowing this from a cursory reading of the laws. I better fix that. By the way, I have a tinfoil hat of my own. The system I propose doesn't suggest that you need to be able to trace every digital identity to a "flesh and blood" person. Most important, and I'm sure you know if you really have your own tin foil hat, cyberspace is not actually anonymous these days. It just *appears* to be anonymous. The fact that the appearance is not what's really going on is a problem, and one of the reasons we need to elevate peoples' understanding of the issues.
Seems to be true sometimes. So I've got a link that works and won't change now: http://www.identityblog.com/stories/2005/07/25/the laws.html