Sounds like ones demands have changed, or atleast they got a hold of themselves. whatever lead to them walking back on this, it’s the end of another battle for internet privacy, but not the end of the war. As apps continue to track you in new mysterious ways behind their closed sourced software, and the governments continue to crack down on encryption. Anonymous names are important for privacy too.

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    I thought this was extra rich coming from the woman who won’t even use her real first name (Nimarata) because she fears backlash among her racist, shitbag supporters.

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      “Shit, if everyone knows that I play girl characters online, they’ll think I’m a trans.”

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    I don’t mind anonymous American people having free speech; what I don’t like is anonymous Russians and Chinese and Iranians having free speech,

    Wait that’s even dumber, why would she think her law would impact everyone except Americans?

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      I interpreted it more as a “I’m willing to sacrifice all Ameircan’s right for anonymous free speech, which I do value, to take away that of foreigners too.” which is a typical braindead racist take.

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      Especially since it’d cause the complete opposite. They have no authority or power over citizens of other countries.

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    whatever lead to them walking back on this

    I feel pretty confident that the reason is that most anonymous bigots online are Cons, never mind the troll farms they employ to help keep themselves in power…

    (E: to be clear, fuck these privacy destroying laws, just pointing out why there would be backlash specifically from the GOP)

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    She’s really terrible at this. She got away with it when she ran for Governor in SC, because they don’t get as much coverage.