Lessons from Plato and the Ring of Gyges

"The problem is that no one can tell if you are a troll, a hacker, a robot, or whether Macedonian teenagers are announcing stories.

This [anonymity] jeopardizes popular discourse, hacking, permission of cyber bullying, and e-mail creation. "

Almost a year ago, Walter Isaacson wrote an article by The Atlantic and said "anonymity harms online life." Online anonymity may be used as a tool for bullying, personal information, personal information, and violence against others. In these cases, Isaacson 's assertion claims that anonymous poisons are tracing discourses in other dilemmas.

Anonymity plays an important role in how people live online in their lives. Actively, people can join online forums and communities to share their interests with other anonymous people. In certain countries you can freely share information that may be reviewed. In the case of a social uprising, we can publish and share persuasive videos that lead to aggressive social change.

In contrast, anonymity can be used as a tool for Isaacson to think - unfair. To support his view, Isaacson has adopted the Plato story from the Republic's Gyges ring. When she gave me a ring, the shepherd named Gyges disappeared and became anonymous. Through his invisible things, he invited the queen, killed her king, and took over the kingdom. Plato believes that the ring of Hui people - invisible anonymity - is the only obstacle between fair people and unfair people. He believes that if we are wearing an anonymous coat all of us will be unfair. Inequality is more beneficial. Because it is necessary

I do not think that fraud would be anonymous. Again, we see people doing publicly on the Internet or doing the same harmful things. Even disabling online anonymity can not prevent harmful activities such as fraud, fraud, threats. People become more confident in publicly sharing things as people become more confident in speaking and disliking actions. In fact, I believe that people take away their anonymous skin and accept the power of their public online personality.

Thanks to his ring, Gyges is confident in his actions. He took a dramatic action against the force gained from the ring. Plato believes that we are born deeply like Giggs - because we must live in our society. It is not here to write a blog about freedom of speech and folk speech. I want to become a fair and just person as much as possible. Our personal decision can not express the whole population. It is necessary that people are not people, not anonymous people or people with labels. You are a person who exceeds your online role. Therefore, anonymity can not be prohibited, as it is just a package solution to solve more complex and complex problems.

In Plato Republic, the Gyges ring is a magical ring invisible to the wearer. The holder of the ring can do various work without being discovered. A character named Glaucon (actually a brother of Plato) wants to know if he / she wears such a ring whether he / she makes bad things to a good person. He wondered if people knew what they would do if they knew they could escape. Anonymity is the soul of the Internet. Troll was there. But these days it becomes a bigger problem, which is a nuisance for a very competent company. On Instagram, Twitter, and other sites, there were many problems in identifying and abusing language exploits. Because there are many. To the human team, there are too many manual tags and responses in a timely manner. Speech is very subtle, so it is very difficult to fight programatically.

In the second volume of the Republic of Plato, we met the legend of Gyges. Glaucon is in the second volume of the Republic of Plato and Glaucon recalls the legend of Gyges which is said to have discovered a magical ring in a crack opened by the earthquake; Gyges uses the power of the ring to enter the palace And, Tempting the Queen, killing the king, and taking the throne; and Glaucon demanded Socrates to imagine having two such rings. Glaucon believes that if the ring is protected, he thinks that so-called men behave like rogues and someone "put hands on others' things, enter the house, sleep with the chosen woman, freely kill the prisoner suicide Let's do it. " Temptation to kill "... This is a moral self-interest