The Internet and Anonymity - Such a nuanced topic...
Blogs, digital cameras, web cams, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and other media make too much personal human information available on the internet everyday. Do humans need to know so much and have so much intimate information revealed to a mass audience of strangers? What motivates the humans who share this information? It has become part of world culture.
On the other claw, humans can remain anonymous for legitimate purposes or take on false identities for nefarious reasons. EFF states that "protections for anonymous speech are vital to democratic discourse." On a personal note, though, you gotta ask yourself if your new internet boyfriend, Chavez Moondancer, is really a Freirian art education student. Could he actually be a Tylerian No Child Left Behind supporting classroom teacher? Humans can be tricksy like that.
Artbot chooses not to be anonymous. Sadly, though, Artbots have no First Amendment rights.
The humans seems caught between too much and too little anonymity. Are they having a crisis of human identity?
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