Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: 'It's a national security threat'

But she's fine with continuing the anonymous donations to all the PACs that fund her.

Ah yes, one step closer to a totalitarian state. Let’s go.

Republicans really hate privacy don't they. In 20 years theyre gonna ban bathroom doors so they can make sure the "right" people are in the "right" bathrooms.

Such a move would lead to an increase in “civility,” Haley believes. “When they know their pastor, their family members can see it, it's going to help our kids and it's going to help our country," she said.

That's what everyone said about posting next to your real name on Facebook. How did that turn out?

I agree with Nimarata Hailey, everyone should use their real names in social media and everywhere

Uh oh, social credit system coming from...the same people who bitched the loudest about the social credit system?

lol I’d love to see how the US Government would be able to enforce such a thing.

Ah yes, more of that American freedom I hear so much about as an American.

Oh fuck off, would ya?

How will she round up all the minorities if they're anonymous online?

This is some 00s level politicians not understanding how the Internet works.

Why even bother? It's not like anything is ever done about the non-anonymous threats we currently see. Ffs.

Terrible idea. Look, the nerds set up the internet and from the beginning never used their real names. There's a reason for that.

So if these genius' knew better, Hayley should learn from that.

The dumb part is this vow doesn't even make sense on the face of it to protect national security.

Someone doesn't understand the internet...

So she wants reddit and youtube like platforms to be named individuals. Is she going to then go after all the forums that still exist? If so, I guess I'll see you guys next in a Dialup BBS.

The gop is a national security threat

First they came for our shit post accounts, and I said nothing....

Don't anybody tell her that the Fediverse exists. It might break her brain.

The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

So, she really wants to just tank her own campaign, huh?

So how is she going to make them non-anonymous in a way that businesses can properly verify identity? Does every single social media site need to have its own ID analysis system for every state-ID? I mean that seems like it would be ridiculously hard.

For that to be practical, they'd need something nation-wide, and probably digital.

So, does she want to suggest to her fanbase a national digital ID? How would htat go?

"Every political donation should be verified by their name. It’s a national security threat," she said. "When you do that, all of a sudden people have to stand by what they say and it gets rid of the Russian bots, the Iranian bots and the Chinese bots."

Agree with her views on algorithm transparency, however abolishing anonymous accounts won't improve the situation around misinformation.

Facebook has required your real name for a long time, and it still resorted into people dissecting into echo chambers supporting their views points.

Yes, anonymous accounts allow people to hide behind a mask, but a lot of people spreading misinformation aren't afraid of being humiliated or ridiculed. It even helps spread it faster (celebrities, influencers, etc) in a lot of situations.

This will help me afford a home! This will help me afford kids! This will make me feel safe at traffic stops! This will help my union at work! This will help our extreme temperature swings!

There are people who will defend this

I think she just wants to abolish social media. The memes get to her.

It was not the land of the free?

Terrorism enabler, Nikki Haley

Show us your Pornhub account, Nikki

Rude.

How are you going to disable anonymous accounts? You can always be anonymous if you want, meaning that this ends, AGAIN, with normies not having anonymous access and nerds and criminals still having anonymous access

Hahaha no.

Good luck

I'm game for this...Republicans would disappear from the net overnight if they had to use their real names.

Repugnantcants need it easier to dox harras and threaten people they dissagree with while claiming its the OTHER group ruining everything.

How exactly does she believe they're going to accomplish this? Serious question cause it doesn't seem possible from where I'm sitting, anonymously.

that bitch take away her name privileges i will not associate with her

Can't we just abolish this Nikki Haley instead? Whoever she thinks she is.

without anonymous i am not really using the internet

all this just to find the person with a Vegeta avatar that clowned on them on Twitter or whatever

Saw a south park episode like that

@L4s This dumb broad would need to ban the Federalist Papers, too, since they were anonymous.

McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission ~>

"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority [.....] It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation [.....] at the hand of an intolerant society."

www.eff.org/issues/anonymity

Tricky Nikki said:

"Every person on social media should be verified by their name. It’s a national security threat," she said. "When you do that, all of a sudden people have to stand by what they say and it gets rid of the Russian bots, the Iranian bots and the Chinese bots."

Her handlers just want to control all narratives. She doesn't care about Russian bots. Nikki Haley is a bot.

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As long as it's primary season and we're workshopping far right brain farts ... free guns for all kindergartners? Make dogs wear pants? NBA but for white people? Grammy category for songs about how things used to be better?

Can we abolish Nikki Haley instead?

What a weak nation. Even internet trolls are security threat to it.

What a dumb cunt.

I'm gonna be interested how that's supposed to work with false positives, err, collateral damage, err, plausibly deniable canceling of free speech of citizens. Nice try.

LOL

This is idiotic but it did make me think, would you end up with like... some sort of MAD policy but for doxxing? If everyone can be doxxed then no one can be doxxed?

GOP Free ..dom?

Stupid rotten Cunt.

Would love this. Social media is a cancer affecting the whole world.

The way I feel about this is similar to how I feel about getting rid of all guns. It would definitely make the country safer on the whole, but it would also endanger the vulnerable and violate the bill of rights. It would also be government overreach.

Unpopular opinion: internet discourse would be slightly more civil if people’s real names were attached to their Internet Hot Takes.

But yeah, have fun enforcing that, Nikki.