ERW Question Time!!! :) Subject: Anonmyity Online

There is a lot of controversy between whether people should be able to be anonymous on social media or should there be a way to start banning anonymity itself. If you was to ask me on my view, I would tell you that I side with anonymity.

Here are some reasons why I support anonymity:

• Anonymity allows the unheard people of the crowd be heard.
• Anonymity allows people who are humble stand up for what they support without worrying about if people who may know him/her not want to be around that person anymore.
• Anonymity allows the people who are shy say what they have to say without the worry of actually knowing people or being compromised.

You can argue that the anonymous bullies and harassers, or in other words "trolls," are overrunning the internet. In reply to this argument, I do agree with this but not entirely, in recent studies only 28% of the American people admits to being an internet troll. A 2014 study shows that internet trolls are mostly men.

I tend to think of anonymity like immigration. No, no... I mean like how everyone is either pro-immigration or anti-immigration. Do we really want to deport people who came for a better life from the life of poverty. They came from probably nothing except a brick wall square and a well for water.

Think about the anonymity, people want to speak their minds that they felt like they couldn't do before. They want to feel apart of the cyber world and feel secure while doing it. So being anonymous helps them. Do we want to "deport" anonymity?

Also think about it? If we was to get rid of anonymity, we have no laws to protect our victims from trolls so what can we do about it if we lose anonymity. The Suicide and death rate would go up because everyone would know who is saying what and it might hurt more than before now that you knew it was someone you cared about.

So answer this question: Is losing anonymity worth the suicides to come?