I want to see real names on the internet. I want to know who is speaking,

I want to see real names of lobbyists. I want to know who is bribing you.

So he can arrest anyone who criticizes Israel and better persecute migrants.

Germany's Merz can ingest excrement and expire, I will NEVER submit, full stop.

—ThorrJo J. Thorsson, Esq.

Let's see how the feddit.org mods explain this one to their userbase / to the Fediverse.

I propose that all politicians must have cameras installed and streamed 24/7 in any spaces they regularly occupy. This includes offices, private homes, and even bathrooms. These spaces must have enough cameras that there are no blind spots within the rooms. Let's make every politician live in a very literal manifestation of 1984. Don't want to have the whole world watch you take a crap? Don't run for office.

Germany and Autoritarianism: name a more iconic duo.

Boomer who doesn't understand technology wants to go back to 1980s.

Papers! Where are your papers!?

That's like everybody having to wear a name tag in public. Also, chilling effect.

Fuck off Gestapo Merz

Merz is in his 70s. He is not the most gifted politician. One nickname given to him by a journalist is "the unavoidable" in reference to him having no good competition for leadership in his party after a perceived century of Angela Merkel in charge who had successfully sidelined him. For a reason, it seems.

He is very good at dropping shit like this in the media and then having it walked back or watered down. I do not see this idea getting a majority in the country where Google street view is useless because people rebelled against having the public facing side of their buildings photographed for easier navigation. And I can see a few arguments that would occupy the supreme court for a decade, were this to become law.

Which would be a nice idea, if it wasn't for the fact that the second that this happens, nobody will be able to freely speak any truth at all, because governments will jump on it to restrict speech more and more and more and something tells me that fuckface McNazi knows this.

See what I did there? If I had to post under my real name, I would not have called him that.

Free speech depends on anonymity

Louis Rossman just did a video on this very topic. He had a hot take on it, but it's about the double edged sword of Internet anonymity in his formative years.

I think it’s time to cancel the internet.

i fail to see the benefits to this for example if someone makes a post asking for help in the linux community an two people reply with same answers that work itd make no difference if one person that answerd is richard stalman or some random john doe

Fuck you Merz

I wonder why such discussions are always framed as an all or nothing propositions. Zero knowledge systems are a decades old invention. Just very briefly: based on some ID a site issues cryptographycally signed tokens claiming some fact, e.g. the requester being an actual real person, adulthood, etc. Such a token could be presented by an otherwise anonymous user to a 2nd site with their own signature as proof of said property in order to consume their service. Tokens could even be single use.

A requirement to prove someone is, in fact, a human is not unreasonable. Banning bots or bad actors could be a solution to a lot of the problems on social media etc...

There is naturally a major shortcoming of this scheme, authoritarians could not track people...

NO.

Annonymity is what makes this all work. People forgetting that are the ones who screw it up.

There are crazy things that are happening during european elections. Swamrs of bots and fake accounts are used to promote anti-EU anti-everything parties.

There was a case in Romania that president was elected, but tuned out that much of his tiktok was sponsored through Russian and Chinese funds. But highest court overuled election results.

Facebook bots are being used in Lithuania by the shittiest parties, journalists get bombarded with hate comments after they openly critique those parties.

I think there's great threat to every country national security with how social media is managed. However massive ID checks is going to create more problems and it won't ever pass with German public since they are one of the most privacy conscious in EU.

Yes but it’s just your first name.

I want all of Metz's private messages scrolling by in a live feed.

Don't do this.

Lieber Herr Merz,
Ficken sie sich in den Arsch.

Gnädichst
Deutschland

All important shits like Trump or Merz are already posting under their real names. Publicity is a part of their job. Leave plumber Gustav out of this nonsense.

Uhm no thank you

You first, Merz. Show us your anonymous communication.

Merz's real name is a traitor to western civilization. Hindenburg Merz at that, betraying western culture and in doing so throwing the election to the far right, that will with the help of the US and Russia fix elections.

This from the country of "glorify the genocide of Palestinians, like a good German soldier"? Rich of them.