After viewing the video, my opinion is that anonymity with websites is impossible to achieve. Although a nice idea and comforting thought these days nothing seems to be "anonymous". Freedom of speech is one of those things that should not be posted on the world wide web. Whether its a religeous belief or opinions of war and government issues, watching what you put down on the web is crucial. The internet isnt written in pencil, its written in ink. Once a post is made or your words have been submitted the possibility of hundreds of thousands of people seeing it is much more likely than not. Before you ever have the chance to delete or erase anything you may be subject to responses by the viewers, which aren't always in your favor. With every website there is a creator, the creator has access to whoever posts anything on their site. In turn there is no such thing as complete anonymity.
Christopher Poole says the website http://www.ted.com/ is completely anonymous. There is no need to enter personal information, or give anything to log on. Although this may be true when you access a web page from a browser of any type anywhere there are people who can track your behavior. They can hack into email accounts as well as desktop systems and review the history reports in the data base of the computer you used. As much as I would like to believe and trust in the sites complete anonymity, I cannot based on the fact that tracking is an option some hold the power to.
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