You are not pretending to be a specific identity.
Of course you are. When somebody posts under your user name, they assume it is you writing the post, even if it is not. The poster is pretending to be you up until the point they admit they are writing under your username.
Why would you assume that? It is commonly known that people buy and sell accounts. It is illogical to assume this.
When you post on here you are posting from a username (under certain circumstances this can even be changed). When you make a post, you do not represent that you are any specific person.
People assume you are the same person that wrote all the posts under your username. By writing under somebody else's account name, you are lying to that person.
Incorrect. See my above response. Regardless of if this is true or not, it is very immature to give something more weight just because a certain person said it; you should listen to specific arguments and facts not who is making the statement.
Also when you sell your account, you would also be selling any kind of "identity" associated with such account and this should be obvious to anyone selling such account.
Yes, I already made this point. That is the intrinsic value of the account -- the identity associated with the account. When somebody else assumes your identity for their own purposes this is known as impersonation.
If you're simply trying to rationalize unethical behavior, you're going to have to try harder.
In order to impersonate an identity, you would need to not own that identity in the first place. When you use the term
impersonate you are implying that the identity does not belong to the poster, but in fact it does.
Wow, lotta paranoid conspiracy nutters in here.
The truth is, there's no good argument as to why this shouldn't be allowed. Just a bunch of stupid ones.
Fixed. I've still yet to see any proof of accounts being sold to be used for 'mass propganda'.
I have seen a lot of people advocating for PoS to replace PoW (I suspect to attempt to pump PoS scamcoins - all altcoins are scamcoins IMO). It is possible that these are purchased accounts, however it would not be any different if people were posting from newbie accounts as either way their argument is flawed.
