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This will be my second Pinned Post.

Someone threw my use of anonymity up at me the other day, while objecting to a comment I'd made (it happens: I don't always get it right.). The implication was clear: Anonymity is harmful.

Respectfully, I disagree, and want to open this up for conversation because I think for some it's become frozen as Anonymity = Bad. General discourse around Troll behaviour seems to have cemented this idea in people's minds: "If you're not showing your whole identifiable/verifiable birth-self (#Truther) then you're doing it for nefarious reasons", backed up by cod-psychology around that mask liberating people to be their inner asshole.

This emphatically does happen but it's not always the case.

I've had more battles online than I can count, coming up for a quarter of a century's worth. I'm opinionated and like to set people straight - particularly if there's clear harm involved in someone's words or actions. Racism, Misogyny, TERFism...I've scars from fighting against all of them.

But I'm also quite a private person. Some people I clash with are pretty much evil (or behaving that way). I feel that requires protection; I need a level of protection. Over the years I've become very comfortable with creating a shield persona that keeps me safe. My Internet Name, Uraael, is part of this. I am Birth Name online only in certain circumstances, usually where I can't avoid it.

But this does not mean I change who I am, or how I deal with people. Perhaps I'm a touch bolder online? Perhaps conversations are easier to follow and interact with here instead of neuro-divergently puzzling them out in meat-space? These aren't things I have much control over, much as I might wish otherwise. But by and large I try hard to remain authentic to who I am everywhere.

Extrapolating outward, there could be any number of perfectly legitimate reasons why a person might want their identity shielded. The LGBTQIA community is a perfect example. Being who they/we are can have unpleasant and even life-threatening real world implication. Providing yourself some cover therefore makes perfect sense. If you don't need that then I'd suggest you enjoy a level of privilege that many others don't (my accuser was a white cishet male...), and would ask you consider what it's like in their world for a second before passing accusative judgement.

You might have to work a little harder to really truly know who I am but my heart and soul are right there every day in my posts and replies. Judge not a book by it's shiny animated cover.

Peace.

#Anonymity #Protection

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Poursuivre les États complices

Le Monde Diplomatique de mai 2026 a publié cet article dont l’auteur est le Secrétaire Général de JURDI et maître de conférence Benjamin Fiorini.

Sont rappelées les obligations internationales les plus impératives des Etats, en particulier de la France, de prévenir le crime de génocide quand ils ont « connaissance » de « risque sérieux » de l’existence d’actes génocidaires parfaitement documentés dans le TPO de Gaza. Il est rappelé n’a pas satisfait à cette obligation en ne mettant pas tous ses « moyens raisonnablement à disposition » pour prévenir ce crime. Elle n’a, par exemple, pas exercé les pressions ni pris les sanctions à la hauteur de ses obligations et moyens.

L’article fait état des actions de contentieux entreprises par #JURDi pour dénoncer l' »inaction complice » de la #France et des institutions européennes à cet égard.