We're joined by journalist and tech writer Aisha Gani (@aishagani) to talk about proposals to 'ban anonymity' on social media as part of the British government's Online Safety Bill, and to discuss how much of this - in practice - would be extending the British government's expansive and secretive counter-extremism strategy, much of which has been designed to tackle the nebulous threat of "Islamist" radicalism. We discuss how expanding surveillance tech to social media platforms not only represents a gross expansion of the programme, ensuring that Peter Theil and other tech cops get richer, but also how this would be entirely counter-intuitive - not least because most people who spread hate online already use their real names and are very easily traceable. Does this mean that more far-right threats will be reported to Prevent? Not particularly! Especially when, based on the British government's own definitions of radical, exclude them entirely. Seems good!

We also discuss Germanic Food Supremacy, in relation to a tweet lamenting that Muslims were unlucky because they couldn't eat boiled salty ham and mashed potatoes, in a liquid pan sauce. Sucks to be us I guess!

(https://twitter.com/Tinkzorg/status/1451921866222878729)

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_OnEarth).