Facebook’s marketing director, who happens to be Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, proposed last year that banning online anonymity would help curtail cyber-bullying and Internet harassment. Then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt made a similar observation in year 2010, noting that “privacy is incredibly important” but “not the same thing as anonymity.” If banning is already imposed or will be imposed would this stop annoying comments against someone freely posted by an anonymous FB user? Is this ethical? Is this against the freedom of speech? Support your answer.

I think if the banning is imposed or to be imposed, this will lessen or help stop annoying comments, cyber-bullying and internet harassment but also at the same time it would contradict or go against freedom of speech. For the reason of stopping cyber crimes and other illegal activities, the banning act would be ethical but it would be unethical if this will go against freedom of speech. I think the best way to prevent the cyber crimes is to track down abusive anonymous users and send a warning for banning a user. Manual tracking of the abusive users than banning online anonimity is a more rightful action.