Protect the Internet, or Hands off, cursed NSA, from the brainchild of the military-industrial complex!

Let me express an opinion on freedom on the Internet, on the topic of which many posts have been published recently.

Most publications have a hysterical tone and boil down to the following: special services listen to the Internet, let's fight them with anonymity. Given that I fully share the indignation of the public about the restriction of freedom on the Internet , I believe that this position contains a serious logical flaw. I consider the methods of fighting for the freedom of the Internet with the help of anonymity to be erroneous - now I will explain why.

You do not need to fight for anonymity on the Internet, you need to fight for the complete absence of anonymity, in which true equality of human capabilities will be expressed. The thought was expressed by the user shpankov in this thread of comments - I applaud and support warmly. I do not want to wriggle in to someone else's glory, but I came to the same conclusion long ago.
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Listen, after all, the security services are not representatives of a hostile alien civilization, but your neighbors on the landing, the same IT specialists. Yes, they act unethically , developing technical means for illegally illustrating the neighbor's correspondence, while at the same time they are doing the same thing as you: improving network technologies. Let this fact and someone seem offensive, but you and they are two sides of the same coin. Hypothetical situation: the user's first and last name is forcibly determined on the Internet, what would then be the special services? That's right, developing technologies that allow you to remain anonymous. I say you are two sides of the same coin, and this medal is called scientific and technical progress.

Scientific and technical progress is aloof from human ethics, not discerning which of the debaters is moral and who is immoral - he will win the ultimate victory in your irreconcilable enmity. By the end of the dispute, anonymity will disappear, acting as an anonymous author will be technically impossible. Just do not betray me anathema, not read the post! For a long time no one has been able to keep the secret of scientific and technological progress, so the victory of the special services will be Pyrrhic. One neighbor on the landing will begin to eavesdrop on the other without difficulty, soon the technology will be made publicly available, then everyone will be able to eavesdrop on everyone - this will manifest the highest scientific and technical justice .

A person has the right to know about other people what he wants? Fine! Payment for the freedom to receive information is the need to provide information about yourself at the request of other people. Information freedom realized by network technologies does not imply state, commercial or private secrets, do you not find?

PS Oh, I feel, now a repetition of the famous scene will take place:
“- We have only cotton, slaves and arrogance. This is not us, but they will break us in one month.
For a moment there was a dead silence. Rhett Butler took a thin linen handkerchief out of his pocket and casually brushed the dust off his sleeve. Then an ominous whisper swept over the crowd of guests, and the gazebo buzzed like a disturbed hive.

Before you run into my profile with nails, I suggest to take a survey - perhaps he will enlighten any of the fighters for anonymity. Which, I repeat, are much more appealing to me than their neighbors on the landing .