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Britain's House of Lords is considering requiring websites to demand your identity before you can post online. Here's why that won't work — and how an EU court decision might be pushing European websites that way already.
UK’s Lords and EU Take Aim at Online Anonymity
Last week, the UK’s House of Lords Select Committee on Communications released a report on “social media and criminal offences.” Britain has faced a number of high-profile cases of online harassment this year, which has prompted demands for new laws, and better enforcement of existing laws.