Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Tesla CEO One Elon Musk and Twitter’s new owners have addressed suggestions that the social media platform should be made less anonymous. Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, a clinical psychologist, is among users who want to reduce anonymity on the platform, but Dorsey said imposing policies that reduce anonymity would be a big mistake. thinking about.
Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey discuss Twitter anonymity
The extent to which Twitter should allow its users to remain anonymous is a hot topic on social media platforms. has been discussed. Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, a clinical psychologist, is one Twitter user who wants to reduce anonymity on the platform. On Friday, he tweeted Elon Musk, who recently acquired Twitter for his $44 billion.
Peterson adds:
In a follow-up tweet, the psychologist wrote: He also told Musk: “Virtualization enables psychopaths.”
At the time of writing, Peterson’s original tweet received nearly 6,000 comments and 12.6,000 likes. It has been. Among those who agreed with him was Twitter user Lucid Fitzpatrick, who tweeted that he fully agreed with the need to reduce anonymity on Twitter.
But former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was quick to warn that less anonymity is a mistake for social media platforms. Musk then clarified, “The payment system and phone verification, but allowing pseudonyms is the worst solution I can think of.”
Many agreed with Dorsey that reducing anonymity would be a big mistake for social media platforms. Some Bitcoin advocates have stressed the importance of anonymously expressing their opinions. As one Twitter user put it:
Another Twitter user said: Anonymity is absolutely essential to allow freedom of expression and freedom of existence. Discovery, problem-solving and learning, and investigative activity only flourish under anonymity on the Internet. Otherwise they would have died. A third user emphasized:
Without anonymity, Twitter would definitely die.
In his reply to Peterson, Dorsey and Musk, his CEO of Microstrategy’s Bitcoin endorsement, Michael Saylor details: of malicious behavior. If Twitter puts security deposits into verified accounts and demands that those funds be confiscated for malicious/bot/spam behavior, you can get & a civil discourse that respects your privacy.
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