Josh and Poptones:

Have you ever wondered why the police sort of laugh when you only give your name? Its because you can go under an alias in “meatspace”. I dont see why there is this imperative need to push for certification of someones identity.

TO me (and many others who have read this site in the last few months) poptones is not identified by his social security number or birth certificate, rather, he is identified by his paranoia and anti government protests.

No harm in withholding this information: How do we know Josh Zeider is your real name.

What a quaint understanding of the internet.

I am not of the myspace generation, so sorry if my desire for a certain amount of privacy offends you. But have no fear: the shrub administration (and apparently most of washington) is on your side: soon no one will be able to post to “the internets” without a permit and proper traceable credentials.

Oooh, but what will you do then, stripped of your imagined safety within a lame, pathologically transparent excuse for evading meaningful rebuttals to your misguided and misinformed rhetoric?

If my comments mean nothing to you, then why do you repeatedly reply to them? Obviously, you are feeling threatened at some level. What I fail to understand is why: I agree with you and you express redeemption, then I offer only the most tangential and impersonal criticism of your stated position and you turn against me like a rabid raccoon?

Dude… grow a pair.

It seems as though we do agree that the disparate regulations inhibits with free market capitalism in the telco arena. I think it is clear there will be a multitude of different providers. The NN question essential covers thier roles and whether they will be allowed to enter into a massive free for all or whether it is going to be socialism on the net.

What side of the debate do you actually think the telcos are on for gods sake.

Technically, I dont disagree with you but from the previous posts I can see why you disagree with me.

poptones is a real person in the sense that Ronald McDonald is a real person.

Do some basic research and get your head out of the old world. You may not know my meatspace name, but I am far from “anonymous.” I have a slushdot profile, I have thousands of posts at ars technica, I have posted on usenet – I may not be “famous” but many people know me well enough to either love me or hate me no matter where “I” go.

Poptones is, in this context, a “person.” You want to know my “real name?”

I am poptones.

Look it up.

threeblindmice( you )
poptones
pelo

i just like to keep track of everyone involved… thanks jmz

WE ARE.

I made a statement, that I believe is valid, has yet to be disproved, and I was accused of being on drugs. Read the posts. It would appear from recent statements made by political leaders that many agree with me.

Secondly, for those of you who repeatedly post here anonymously: if you are serious, and you take Prof. Lessig seriously, and these issues seriously, USE YOUR ACTUAL IDENTITY. none of you risk anything by posting your opinions here and therefore I do not appreciate them.