“In ancient Greece, everyone could express their opinion openly and by name – they would raise their hand and share their view. This should inspire us as we shape a new digital democracy,” the minister told Euractiv on the sidelines of the Delphi Economic Forum.

Didn’t they kill Socrates precisely because he expressed himself?

Socrates and Aristotle have an addendum

“in ancient Greece we would force our philosophers to flee the polis or commit suicide if we disagreed with them”

I think sometimes we forget that citizenship in ancient Greece was reserved for wealthy bloodline males who owned land and slaves, and were able-bodied and politically unproblematic.

Sure, Greek democracy was an important first step, but it was functionally just an expansion of the aristocracy. Let’s not romanticize it overmuch.

The kind of social media they know about, anyway.

I am not ashamed of anything I say here, but I am never doing it with my full identity accessible to whomever. Basic online hygiene.

Dumbass doesn’t know the inherent survivorship bias in history.

At least they’re being honest about it and not hiding their intentions like all the other countries, who are doing the same thing but pretending it’s to save the children.

Will be willing to hold the advertisers on social media to the small level of accountability? Any ad should be from an identifiable real world business, and provide enough information that you could directly report them to authorities.

Nice logic. Coming for the secret ballot is the obvious next step. I’m sure that is a great way to prevent toxicity at the ballot booth.

How will thay do that while keeping privacy intact?

This makes perfect sense since we have a government that does not spy on its people or political opponents, or change laws that can let you verify that they are actually spying on you.

FYI, we have a pretty much mandatory government application that recently applied the google verification api and does not work if it has not been installed from the playstore. The application is of course closed source, has google analytics and can now only be obtained with a google account that basically requires a phone number that cannot be anonymous.

You cannot enter a football match for example without this application. You could use a second phone and take a photo of the QR (screenshots do not work).

Does this really help when ppl are already posting their real photos on social media with nazi supporting posts?

Insert identify verification probe.

Anonymity is the whole point of knowing that everything said on the internet is bullshit. It’s how you don’t bother giving a flying fuck what anyone says online because you need to figure it out for yourself.

Now people will attach their name and other people will think they have a legitimate platform for their bullshit.

ΜΗΤΣΟΤΑΚΗ ΑΥΤΟΚΤΟΝΑ!!!

Can’t say I’m behind the approach but it might help loosen the stranglehold that social media has on average people’s lives. I’d agree that anonymity enables greater levels of toxicity, but I think a greater problem is credibility. Its almost impossible on the internet today to know who is ‘credible’ and if we solved that problem a lot of the toxic content and misinformation would fall into the ‘not credible’ arena and we could treat like fringe fiction accordingly.