We have been talking about the pros and cons of anonymity these last few days, and read articles about many different points of view about the subject. But the real question I have for all of you is what do we truly wish to achieve? Obviously the very unrealistic vision of a perfect situation where anonymity is controlled to a certain extent and people can still be anonymous without using it for negativity is the ultimate dream, but as I said; unrealistic. So what realistic action do we wish to enact in order to better the system? I believe that the right move for the internet to become a much less hostile place is to force a non-anonymous policy for all types of social networking sites where people seek to meet other people they know. I believe that most unbearably rude and depressing trolls come from social media sites like that; for example, twitter, instagram, facebook, etc,. Websites where anonymity is an almost must have would be allowed to continue to allow their users to be anonymous. If people encounter hardcore trolling on a forum or message board, then it is quite simple to ignore trolls because they are unable to pursue you on a website like this. No trolling on the internet is an Utopian thought, but with the right actions taken to stop trolls, we may very well get rid of most of trolling with the setting of simple rules.
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