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Any digital identification system built for AI must preserve anonymous human speech, without which there is no genuine freedom of expression.

Drawn from what Dean W. Ball said

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  1. DB

    Dean W. Ball 1 Sept 2026

    But a society that does not have anonymous speech does not really have genuine freedom of expression, and we should embed this principle into any digital identification system we attempt.

    On the Loosehyperdimensional.co

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