It is also only because you trust your family that you should be
comfortable identifying yourself to them! Being identifiable makes you
weak, easy to divide. Mixing in with a crowd is a form of empowerment,
and it's one that citizens need.

I think these are interesting questions and a good discussion.

I also refer you to a US supreme court decision from 1995:
https://www.eff.org/issues/anonymity McIntyre v. Ohio Elections
Commission
"Protections for anonymous speech are vital to democratic discourse.
Allowing dissenters to shield their identities frees them to express
critical minority views . . . 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."



On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:57 PM, JINDQ1 <jindq1@???> wrote:
> If you extend on that principle, you'll see that we only trust family
> because we can tell them apart. What if your mother and father were
> anonymous? How would that change your world? What if all people were
> completely faceless and could change names and appearance at any moment? I'm
> having a hard time believing that's in the best interest of a society that
> seeks to protect itself in numbers. Maybe DNA will be the answer to that,
> not bitcoin.
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab
>
> Cody R Wilson <codywilson@???> wrote:
> That's kind of breathtaking, Matthew.
>
> Might I offer that political economy isn't the only grid by which we should
> evaluate the concept?
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:36 AM, JINDQ1 <jindq1@???> wrote:
>>
>> I'd love to mock them (because it's easy), but if you want to play the
>> game created by old dudes who still think IP address = single person, you'll
>> have to follow all the rules.
>>
>> The real question is, is being anonymous good for society? I haven't seen
>> a single benefit of anonymity (lacking any verification documents) that
>> isn't highly outweighed by it's ability to enable abuse. Human beings may be
>> nameless, but they're not non-quantifiable. Is there a way to remove the
>> names and keep the verifiable quantity that doesn't make the libertarians
>> twitch and squirm?
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab
>>
>> Cody R Wilson <codywilson@???> wrote:
>> Thought I'd just mark the occasion. Coinbase is now requiring identity
>> documents to verify class 2 account holders.
>>
>> Glorious compliance!
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Cody R. Wilson
>> codywilson@???
>>
>> The University of Texas School of Law
>> Class of 2014
>>
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>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Cody R. Wilson
> codywilson@???
>
> The University of Texas School of Law
> Class of 2014
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