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RE: [ENG-SPA] Anonymous posting on Hive: a thought experiment | Publicación anónima en Hive: un experimento mental

in LeoFinance2 years ago

The American founders posted under pseudonyms in the Fedaralist Papers and Anit-Federalist Papers. It took scholars a while to be able to say they could positively identify the actual writers, and by that time the writers were dead. If I wanted to get really controversial or subversive, I would just create a new account with a distinct pseudonym. True anonymity, as Edward Snowden revealed, is dream now--a nice dream, but nearly impossible. !CTP

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Indeed, anonymous publication was the norm rather than the exception in other times. Sooner or later, in most cases, the author of these works becomes known for sure (as happened to Rumpelstiltskin). Absolute anonymity is probably a dream, at least for now. But some degree of anonymity can be achieved and may be sufficient for many publications (if the identity of American Founders was discovered when they were already dead, surely their level of anonymity can be considered to have met the goal). And yes, as I say in the article, it is possible to do this on Hive currently by creating a new account for each publication and getting someone (not oneself, to avoid being identified) to fund it with some resource credits, just not a very practical solution. thanks a lot for the comment!


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