On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 5:41 PM \0xDynamite <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:
So which do you prefer: accountability or anonymity? The power goes both ways. Pick one.
This is the cypherpunks mailing list? Weren't cypherpunks advocates of anonimity or something?
Geez man, can't you pick up on it when someone's trying to teach you something?
Anonymity and accountability are two contrary aims. If you want one, you don't get the other. Get it?
We were mind controlled to take over the world, but we have learned to resist.
Aims, like anonymity and accountability, are not contrary. They all can be accomplished together.
You're probably talking about the election and the voting process. I was speaking generally.
The only law is time, who holds no sides.
Casting aims as contrary was a way to reduce the power of the masses.
You're right. In theory you could achieve both with a second layer, a layer of indirection. Asking for ID to get into the voting booth, which just has to keep track that you haven't voted already and separate the act of voting, which can be anonymized by concealed ballots.
\0xD