Taylor Lorenz

I invite anybody who believes that to spend a little time in the Facebook comment section.

People will say the most vile stuff with like full on profile pictures of them holding their kids.

You're right.

It's actually these bad actors are bad actors.

Now, listen, if they're threatening you, if they're doing things that are legally actionable, you should be empowered to take legal action.

And I'm all for making it, you know, you know, empowering people to be able to do that, because the reality is, is that these people are not protected by, you know,

just because they might not violate like meta's guidelines doesn't mean that they're not doing something legally wrong in a court, you know, that you could prove in court.

So I do that.

I mean, I've dealt with a stalker.

I deal with all this stuff too, but we need to look at the bigger picture here and we need to think a little bit outside of like, what is common sense?

Cause that's what they're preying on, right?

They're preying on us just being like, well, that sounds good.

Right.

Right.

And that's always kind of the most insidious thing.

Um,

a lot of people require anonymity on the internet journalists require it to do our jobs activists dissidents and right now uh there's a great new york times story that just came out really earlier this week horrifying that the department of trump's trump's department of homeland security is currently seeking to unmask hundreds of accounts across america that have criticized ice

Anybody that is starting an anonymous account and criticizing ICE is what they're seeking to unmask.

These identity age verification efforts just make all of that easier.

The government doesn't have to go through all this hassle.