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i am pseudonymous because for the same reason silence dogood was. because it is my right, and i can.
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silence dogood definitely falls under the "how we feared the law would be broken against us" territory, along with publius et al
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Did he not do it out of spite as his brother didn’t publish anything in his name? And he only continued with it as the first one caught on pretty well? While the contents certainly point to the need for freedoms and the distrust in authority, I doubt the motivation was rooted in the same?
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A more lighthearted example, sure, but it is principally rooted in the same: an authority (his brother) applying unlawful (or in this case, simply unethical by censorship) pressure. Silence Dogood wasn't his only pseudonym though
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Most certainly, principally they are the same and his underlying intentions cuts across through most of his identities as well. Let me rephrase, I think there are three tiers when it comes to pseudonyms: (1) those who depend on it for security - journalists, radical political movements, security researchers etc (2) those who want an alter-ego, to decouple from their reality for whatsoever reason with fewer strings attached - gamers, hackers, 4chaners etc (3) those that realised people trust random pseudonyms online sufficiently(and sometimes more so in niches) and this can be leveraged for personal gain with little legal/ethical responsibility - crypto rugs, silk road, disinformers etc While (1),(3) get most attention due the outsized impact it has on people, most of us (2) are just lurking around trying with an alternative identity.
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