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Greetings people and welcome to another TrollsNews tells how it is. In the last episode of Bullshitbusters
we were talking about social networks and how people are egocentric ***. This opened
a door to another topic that could be anonymity on the internet and if it makes internet better
or worst place.
MrTerrorFace was asking us to talk about Greater Internet *** theory, which basically says
that normal person + anonymity + audience will create total ***. This originated
in Penny Arcade comic strip, but is this really the case or do we just preceive it this way.
It seems that many people on the internet forget how the real world looks like, last
time I checked we were not cute fluffy bunnies outside the internet, we can see as many ***
on the streets as we can see on the internet. People are suing, beating up and killing each
other. But if I call someone *** on the internet suddenly internet is the worst thing
since nazi party.
Internet is just giving us a chance to express that we are ***, it doesn't turn us into
***. But is anonymity really a problem? First what we see on the internet is usually
not anonymity it's so-called pseudonymity, because for example on youtube we are using
usernames, which are commonly not our real names, but for many people reputation of their
pseudonym becomes as important as reputation of them selves in real life.
Just few sites on the internet are truly anonymous and of course 4chan is one of them, what you
can see there might be often very disturbing but it was not created by the site, the site
and anonymity it brings didn't turn people into what you can see there, but they can
be who they are, because there is such a place. At the end in the world of lies this is one
of few places with real people who are not afraid to express themselves, how bizarre.
Anonymity on the internet is not evil force transforming us into monsters, it's a unique
tool which gives us opportunity to see humans for who they really are. This way we can understand
each other in better way and actually improve relationships between people, because it might
be healthy for us not to lie each other once in a while. Anonymity doesn't threaten us,
it gives us opportunity to try ideas, jokes or whatever we want and not being afraid it
will ruin us.
Maybe anonymity isn't good, maybe it is better if we lie each other all the time, maybe you
don't want me to say that you are over-weight 13 year old faggots. But that's not the point,
the point is that it wasn't the internet anonymity and audience to make me say that, but who
I am! My name is IFuckedYourMomWithAJackHammer The Trollface and I hate you, have a great
cancer!