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Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts

posted by janrinok on Saturday August 10 2019, @05:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-love-the-smell-of-burning-trolls-in-the-morning dept.

barbara hudson writes:

Things finally came to a head on slashdot last night, and now anonymous posts are banned. No more anonymous nazi ASCII art, no anonymous racism, and no APK. More in this journal entry [Ed's Comment: And lots of interesting comments too ...].

It's one way to combat anonymous hate speech and forum spam.

[Editor (JR) We've looked at the site but we cannot find an announcement that anonymous posts are actually banned; it might simply be a case that the software is not working correctly, although it would seem to be an unlikely cause. Does anyone in our community have any additional information to categorically prove or disprove that anonymous comments are disabled?

Furthermore, as there are many more comments in the journal entry than there are here, I would recommend making any new comments on BarbaraHudson's journal entry rather than splitting the discussion into two.]

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @08:31PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @08:31PM (#878450)

    Rather than militant libertarians, the site seems to have been flooded by militant authoritarians. The sheer number of people defending practices like mass surveillance, the TSA, the drug war, etc. was staggering.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @10:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @10:17PM (#878499)

    Most people sold out. It's hard to get a job in tech without forfeiting a lot of those early values that were shared online. They've been replaced with the new sjw values that businesses seem to embrace.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:37AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:37AM (#878776)

    defending practices like mass surveillance

    What is the alternative?
    We have a bunch of black people running around looting houses, attacking people on the street, harming people. What do you do? Other than surveillance I meant.
    So far they have been captured on CCTV but not clearly enough to identify them.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @09:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @09:02AM (#878789)

      What is the alternative?

      Doing literally nothing is better than violating people's liberties en masse. Freedom is more important than safety.

  • (Score: 2) by epitaxial on Sunday August 11 2019, @09:00PM

    by epitaxial (3165) on Sunday August 11 2019, @09:00PM (#878976)

    Can you find me examples of this?