Twitter has criticised a proposal made by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to see social media users stripped of their anonymity. Last month, Morrison said that social media platforms refusal to identify users accused of crimes, such as defamation, would be liable for the comments made on their site. “Social media has become a coward’s palace where people can just go on there, not say who they are, destroy people’s lives, and say the most foul and offensive things to people—and do so with impunity,” Morrison told reporters. However, Twitter’s public policy director for Australia and New Zealand, Kara Hinesley, argued there was no evidence the proposal would remediate abusive comments made online. “I want to emphasise—I cannot emphasise this enough—a tech solution cannot fix the social problem,” Hinesley said, reported ZDNet. “It’s not clear that anonymity is the primary driver of abusive and antisocial behaviour online. It’s even less …
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