* This story is reposted from an article on the WebPass website.

WebPass does not deny anonymity culture

WebPass IDs are domain-based and do not force IDs to be associated with personal information such as real name or gender.

The domain of the WebPass ID is the address of the portal site of the owner of the ID, but it is not necessary to operate the portal site under the real name, and it is possible to operate it with a nickname.

Your profile picture or image can also be an avatar or logo.

What WebPass achieves is to guarantee that the subjects of activities on the Web (contributors, etc.) are the same person.

In addition, by arranging the activities of the same person in chronological order as a log and making it possible to view it anywhere immediately, it forms a rough character of that person.

In other words, your WebPass ID is your avatar, your character, and when it starts to have value, it becomes your brand.

Specifically

For example, the WebPass ID of "Satoru Nakamura", who invented WebPass, is "satorun.hitois.net", but the item for the name "Satoru Nakamura" can be the nickname "Satorun".

You can hide your real name "Satoru Nakamura" and work as "Satorun".

When posting in various posting spaces on the Web using the WebPass ID "satorun.hitois.net", the poster is guaranteed to be "Satorun (satorun.hitois.net)".

As a result, a chronological log of "Satorun (satorun.hitois.net)" activities on the web will be created and published.

"Satorun (satorun.hitois.net)" is an entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and developer of "WebPass".
These facts become the character of "Satorun (satorun.hitois.net)".

And if the achievement is recognized, "Satorun (satorun.hitois.net)" will become a brand.

Since my nickname is "Satorun", You may not feel very anonymous. But if you act with a name that is less real, it will be established as "anonymous".

* "Anonymous" here means that the real name and who you are cannot be known from the user name.

"Brand" for business

I mentioned earlier that when a WebPass ID becomes valuable, it becomes a brand.

In other words, using a WebPass ID means using your brand name.

It's easy to imagine that your brand is important to your business.

When your WebPass ID has the value of a brand, it will have the character of a corporation.

When you use that WebPass ID to carry out activities, even if it is used with something that cannot identify you, such as a nickname, the brand becomes responsible.

That's a business advantage, but it also discourages irresponsible behavior.

There is no responsibility for "anonymity" that has no reality

Since the Internet is a cyber domain, the reality is that it is possible for "anonymous" users who do not even exist to speak out.

An anonymous user has no accountability and therefore cannot be held responsible.
However, just because they are not responsible, is it okay to allow them to make irresponsible remarks by claiming that they have no responsibility?

The web is a public space, and irresponsible remarks are not allowed there, especially irresponsible remarks that attack others.

If you insist on "freedom of expression", you need to be responsible for what you say.

Even on the Web, we must not allow "freedom of expression" to be irresponsible.
Allowing that would turn the web into a complete lawless land.

We do not force WebPass

However, I don't mean to say that you need a WebPass to speak on the Web.

I'm not thinking of disallowing "anonymously without substance" posting as before on services that do not require user registration, such as bulletin boards.

However, if WebPass is applied to the Web, where anyone can act "anonymously without substance" as in the past, "anonymously with substance" will permeate, and the credibility of posting "anonymously without substance" will decrease.

The words of those who are responsible and take responsibility for what they say carry more weight and credibility.

WebPass won't go so far as to deprive "anonymous'' users of the opportunity to speak, but they can be expected to carry far less weight and credibility than they do today.

In a nutshell

WebPass makes it possible for you to say, "I don't want to reveal my name, I don't want to reveal who I am, but I want you to believe what I say!"

Please see the pitch deck for the business plan.

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This article is a reprint of "WebPass guarantees that the posting user is the same" posted in the "Thoughts of the developer" section of the WebPass website.