User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-201159-20130701200853

Requiring accounts is outstanding and I thank you for doing it. While we haven't had any specific issues, each non-registered user updates, IMHO, requires extra review. Why? No one specific is standing behind the change and why should someone need to be anonymous on a site about Scan2Go (TV series, toys, and games)? I have yet to see a need, but accept their "right" to be anonymous.

As it turns out, I was wrong about this being a right, obviously, as Wikia turned off on the Scan2Go wikia the ability for people to be anonymous. Yet, what concerns me is. . . is being anonymous or better might be. . should being anonymous on the Internet be a right!? Rights are valuable and something everyone should protect and to give them up for a bit of extra security is, well, playing with the balance between liberty for all and tyranny. Yeah, heavy stuff one doesn't think of happening in these day and age, but honestly, the fight for liberty is with everyone and every generation. It isn't -- unfortunately -- something the world of man gives us by default. History clearly indicates the rights of people, of individuals, is a new concept on a global scale (not even 150 years old for the world and around 237 years for North America).

Bottom line? I am grateful for this change as an wikia admin, but it concerns me, personally, that rights are shifting away from the individual.