“I Want Everybody’s Name.” Nikki Haley Ignores the First Amendment As She Demands an End to Online Anonymity
By Dan Frieth | Reclaim The Net | November 14, 2023
Presidential hopeful from the Republican party, Nikki Haley, has come out in favor of removing online anonymity, recruiting all social media account holders to verify their accounts with a government ID.
Haley said anonymous social media accounts and “misinformation” are a “national security threat.”
However, her sentiments have fueled concerns surrounding censorship and freedom of speech.
Haley, in an interview with Fox News, emphasized her demand for transparency in social media algorithms. The understanding of algorithms, she believes, would reveal the reasons behind certain content delivery on these platforms.
Haley voiced her concerns over the surge in unidentifiable accounts on social media and the alleged misinformation she says they disseminate. She affirms these as potential threats to national security that need to be addressed swiftly and decidedly. She expressed her viewpoint, maintaining that “Every person on social media should be verified by their name. It’s a national security threat.”
“I want everybody’s name,” Haley said on the Ruthless podcast.
Haley also proposed a strategy to mitigate bot activity originating from Russia, Iran, and China by implementing stringent verifications for social media accounts. She believes this measure would improve conduct on these platforms, positing that the knowledge of their posts being seen by known relations would lead to a rise in “civility.”
In oppressive regimes, anonymity is often a shield for dissidents and activists. It allows them to speak out against government abuses, organize protests, and share information without immediately revealing their identity. Mandatory ID verification would strip away this layer of protection, making it easier for authoritarian governments to identify, track, and prosecute individuals who oppose them.
Knowing that their identities could be easily uncovered, many would-be dissidents might choose to remain silent rather than risk their safety. This chilling effect on free speech would be detrimental to the fight for human rights and democracy. In countries where dissent is already dangerous, further suppression of free speech can strengthen authoritarian rule.
Authoritarian regimes often employ extensive surveillance to monitor and control their citizens. Mandatory ID verification on social media would hand these governments another tool for surveillance. This could lead to more targeted repression, as governments could more easily identify and monitor the activities of dissidents when social media platforms are compelled to hand over the information they hold on users.
The Constitutional Implications of Haley’s Demands
The First Amendment of the US Constitution protects freedom of speech and expression. Mandatory ID verification on social media could be seen as a form of censorship, limiting individuals’ ability to speak freely online. Historically, the Supreme Court has been protective of anonymous speech as a vital part of the freedom of expression, as seen in cases like Talley v. California (1960) and McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995). These cases underscore the right to distribute anonymous literature and the protection of anonymous speech, respectively.
Related to the First Amendment, there’s a historical precedent for the right to anonymity in political speech. In the Federalist Papers, for example, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote under the pseudonym “Publius” to argue for the ratification of the Constitution itself. Without the right to anonymity, there would be no America as we know it.
This anonymity allowed for the free exchange of ideas without fear of retribution. Requiring ID verification could discourage individuals from expressing unpopular or dissenting opinions, thus stifling democratic discourse.
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In retrospect it can be seen that the 1967 war, the Six Days War, was the turning point in the relationship between the Zionist state of Israel and the Jews of the world (the majority of Jews who prefer to live not in Israel but as citizens of many other nations). Until the 1967 war, and with the exception of a minority of who were politically active, most non-Israeli Jews did not have – how can I put it? – a great empathy with Zionism’s child. Israel was there and, in the sub-consciousness, a refuge of last resort; but the Jewish nationalism it represented had not generated the overtly enthusiastic support of the Jews of the world. The Jews of Israel were in their chosen place and the Jews of the world were in their chosen places. There was not, so to speak, a great feeling of togetherness. At a point David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father and first prime minister, was so disillusioned by the indifference of world Jewry that he went public with his criticism – not enough Jews were coming to live in Israel.
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Women like this are why they should stay home, raise the kids and take care of the house.
Oh, and not be allowed to vote.
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Though the Federalist Papers were published in the 1780’s, after America became independent of Great Britain in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence, “tensions” continued within and with Great Britain until the “Second War of Independence” in 1812. The Federalist Papers authors knew the danger of being known for advocating a Constitution, a danger from a number of sources.
However, opinion now might very be a way to open the debate regarding how a foreign power, a foreign nation is given so much American taxpayer’s money without their vote, without their approval, for a war conducted by America on behalf of a foreign power, a foreign nation. That foreign power and nation has made America a partner in how it, that is, Israel, conducts its war, how that war upon its non-citizen ‘citizens’ are subject to a military assault and war, how Israel conducts war upon its neighboring countries and the regard thus generated by both as well as the world at large, by which is meant, those countries not under the “crush” of American demanded obligation to submit to what America demands, in so many ways, too many to list here.
As to Israel, how it garners a submission is through the tribal influences, most of which is a most sophisticated propaganda program, coming from America and those western countries wherein a jewish monetary influence is exercised, done so in ways too many to list here.
One the many ways, of the ironies of this exercise, is the demonization of all things “German”; sympathy for “suffering”;
an utter falsity of the connection and shared religious/culture of Christianity and judaism; the not-so-well known hatred toward non-jews, or goyim, Amalek ‘people’ is the most ironic and inexplicable of the many ironies, again, too many others to list, but this last employs the goyim to join the Zionist goal of a Greater Israel which bodes, really, an animosity and casts the non-jew as a lesser creature. Certainly, creatures rejected by God and deemed a lesser soul, being and destiny.
The ironies are for the most part, hidden, but promoted, exploited, but unreciprocated.
The growing “civil war” produced by how America regards its manipulated involvement with Israel, the divisive result and discord, owes itself to the likes of this Nikki Haley and her ilk. Open the debate. Expose this charlatan and megalomaniac, this potential ruin for what she is and would bring to America and the continually generated enemies of the ‘Greater Israel’.
Otherwise, a descent into an abyss….
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Although to give audience to the likes of Nikki Haley risks wasting one’s time in listening to such a demagogue, an additional comment must be posed. Ask her if she favors an imprisonment such as current for Julian Assange, an imprisonment without habeas corpus, as so practiced by Israel for its non-citizen ‘citizens’. With that question, ask her if she favors censorship for opinion to which she disagrees, or, if more than censorship, to enact laws which supersede the Constitutional guarantees and criminalize what she and her ilk would call “hate speech” or “anti-semitism”; ask her where lies the difference between voicing an opinion and criminal opinion.
She epitomizes the person who wants to be in governmental position, thus “protected” by the government, so as to act upon a political or religious persuasion to prevent opposition.
Therein lies a tyrant. Therein lies a traitor to what remains in place for America.
Both are threatened by the Zionist-jewish agenda, an agenda which seeks American involvement in its wars and goal, an agenda which willingly would end debate, Constitutional liberties.
This web site gives to America debate and allows for the liberties given in the Constitution. For this, I appreciate and thank aletho news.
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