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I agree; and it's necessary to distinguish anonymity from privacy. Anonymity removes any accountability, and if you add privacy to that then you tend to get the worst of people.

Privacy, however, is something that needs to be strongly enforced, and that means you have complete control of what personal and private information and communication is available to third parties. Anonymity and Privacy are necessary in places (journalists, dissidents, etc), but many people tend to think of anonymity and privacy as one in the same.

Social media with anonymity allows bad actors to masquerade as whomever they want, say anything without recourse or accountability, and social engineer people at large scales. The issue is that we tend to trust people, and if those people are foreign disinformation agents then we end up with the division we have today. Social media should be private - complete ownership of your data and audience - but it should not be anonymous.

“The US has also launched biological warfare, cyber warfare and public opinion against China.”

This is quite some projection. China's role in the virus/biowarfare will never be affirmed with certainty due to their information suppression; however their cyber warfare and public opinion efforts are at full throttle.

If you look at any major news website, YouTube, Reddit, Slashdot, Facebook, Twitter, etc, the paid "shills" and "useful idiots" touting pro-Chinese, anti-America propaganda are everywhere. If you don't think you see it, the common talking points repeated are:

1) Amerikkka is full of white supremacists - this is an effort to change public opinion and have people believe that everyone in America is racist and hates Chinese people.

2) Nothing is happening in Xinjiang.

3) COVID disinformation in the forms of 'it started in Fort Detrick', disparaging Pfizer/Moderna/vaccines, etc.

4) The Imperialist/Colonial America is responsible for all the bad things.

5) Without Capitalism, the world would be a perfect place.

And many more

Funny enough, I recently purchased one of the latest TP-Link Archer 5400x (AX73) routers. Ended up not needing it, so I opened it up and connected via UART.

Once you log in it appears to be running a version of OpenWRT, although they don't specify that on their website.

A Russian mathematics professor of mine in graduate school was a student under Kolmogorov. He taught information theory and algebraic combinatorics and helped develop a number of systems for the Soviets. He was extremely challenging, but he cared less about the grades and more that you were understanding the material.

He would say at the beginning of the semester: "You must learn to build the castles in your mind." The visualization of the constructions really helps to understand how to apply the concepts in different contexts.

The Polish professor would hand out chocolate to every student before every test, so that your mind was more relaxed.

The Russian Government had huge motive for this attack, they were not at all happy about the United States' retaliation for SolarWinds/Election interference. Shutting down a major oil pipeline in the United States is not "medium-scale hooliganism."

Also shouting 'No Evidence' is a typical tactic the propagandists use to cast doubt and muddy the waters; surely the attackers would love to see what evidence is available, so they can adapt - that's why evidence is largely kept private.

The Crowdstrike line is another primary talking point of the paid Russian propagandists.

"Anybody can create a cryptosystem that they themselves cannot break" -- it's easy to not see something wrong with what you're proposing for a variety of reason, this is why level-headed discussion is necessary and valuable. Nobody has the same background or viewpoint, and it's oftentimes harder to criticize others than it is to criticize yourself.

Or, NATO is trying to defend Eastern Europe from the encroaching Russian front.

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