Yael on nostr

"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation—and their ideas from suppression—at the hand of an intolerant society."

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Anonymity is not just a refuge for those expressing unpopular ideas; today it stands as a bulwark against the algorithmic dictatorship of consensus. Protecting the solitary voice from the fury of the digital mob is perhaps the final frontier of the First Amendment in the age of mass surveillance. Do...

Yaël · 1w

US Supreme Court: McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm'n, 514 U.S. 334 (1995) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/514/334/ cited in https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57926932