I was searching for more sources in my crossfire paper when I came across an article that outline a casestudy/story about a company that began to link virtual identities with real ones:
The article wouldn't post correctly for some reason- check it here under the title
B. DoubleClick- The Beginning of the Controversy?
http://www.ijclp.org/6_2001/pdf/ijclp_webdoc_11_6_2001.pdf
This is just further proves and shows how treasured and necessary the anonymity of the internet is. We practically define the internet as a place where we can become faceless, nameless or someone else entirely. Just another article I thought went well with class.
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I couldn't get the link to work, but I still agree with your point. Even what people type into google, or their search engine of choice, would change dramatically without anonymity.
Anonymity protects the actions that people do not wish others to know they commit. As Alex's comment noted, should anonymity be erased from the internet, then the search results of google would severely change. This is quite a phenomenon. I think that there will always be a way for people to cheat the system, even when an identifiable internet system is created. I reckon this would happen through constant fingerprint reading in the mice of newer computers. Eventually, extreme government regulation will require everyone to log in using this means of identifiability, and this will result in much tighter access to the internet.
I believe that one of the major factors that attract people to use the internet is anonymity. Whether its for shopping or talking to people, often times people are much more comfortable doing it on the internet. It would be interesting to see how internet usage would change if people were no longer allowed to be anonymous.
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