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This is not actually going to be a post about the G+ nym wars. Rather, it’s about something curious that I discovered while thinking about them.
I would like G+ to support persistent pseudonyms, so G+ users could say “+ESR” and have it point to my G+ profile. But here’s what’s interesting; I don’t actually want that capability because I want people to address me as “ESR” rather than my real name. I will cheerfully answer to either.
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commentary Let's take a closer look at proposed legislation in New York that would eradicate anonymous online speech. Whose interests are being served? Read this blog post by Violet Blue on Internet & Media.
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ROBERT F PECKHAM FEDERAL COURTHOUSE, SAN JOSE, 2 May – Today Google Inc. made permanent their ban of Vaneeesa Blaylock from their unpopular social network site Google+, declaring Blaylock an ...
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(Phys.org) -- What can social networks on the internet know about persons who are friends of members, but have no user profile of their own?
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As of today I will not be able to post to this blog thanks to the fact my gmail address, associated with both this account and other google websites, is linked to a suspended G+ account - suspended mind you due to Google's crap attitude to pseudonyms...
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The Bay Area woman was named one of 192 Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum, which is best known for organizing the annual Davos forum.
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Finally! In a stunning reversal, Google listens to the internet crowd and allows the use of established pseudonym in its Google plus real-name policy. By doing so, Google follows the footstep of Twitter – who is a long time supporter of pseudonym.
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(Written late last night, this addresses the long saga I've had with Google in confirming my name on their services.)
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New forms of digital technology and social networking sites such as Facebook are increasingly putting people at risk of stalking, according to a report published on...
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Google is now allowing a limited number of users on its social network Google+ to have fully pseudonymous accounts, a Google representative just confirmed with me.
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Google+ will start allowing pseudonyms this week, but getting a pseudonym may require proof of identity, and Google can reject pseudonyms that aren't already well-known.
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The Google+ Common Name policy will never be the same. Google now allows both nicknames and full-fledged pseudonyms on Google+. |
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I like Google Plus. Some of the smartest people I've ever read are on Google Plus, and the Hangout is amazing.
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The deadline for real-name registration on Chinas Twitter-like microblogging sites has come and gone and, to the relief of some, has been uneventful. Users who havent verified their identities can still post messages on their microblogs printable 4th grade assessment
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Gawker Media is flying in the face of conventional media wisdom. While other outlets are doing away with anonymity, we've built anonymous accounts into our new comment system.
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Facebook on Thursday began asking certain popular users to upload photos of their government issued identification cards to help the social network test a new accounts verification service, the social network confirmed to TPM.
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In 1971, journalist Don Hoefler coined the name Silicon Valley. And just like every other 40-year-old Gen Xer, Silicon Valley is now having an identity crisis—about identity no less. The question: How should people name themselves online?
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This brings MacKinnon to her book's central concern: the idea that, more and more, we live under a new breed of digital sovereigns — the Mark Zuckerbergs, Jeff Bezoses and Larry Pages — and thus is time to start to argue for our rights as citizens of cyberspace, not users or consumers or eyeballs being delivered to advertisers. Thus, for example, the recent pushback on Google after it insisted that users of Google Plus use their real names, which some called the "Nym wars," was, for MacKinnon, a hopeful example of netizens engaging with a kind of "collective bargaining," she noted during her talk at MIT. "We're at the Magna Carta moment" for this movement, she noted, insisting that revolution and constitution-drafting remained far off.
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Several major websites spent the past year slowly chiseling away at online anonymity. Two of the biggest forces, Facebook and Google, even got into open spats, demanding that members use their real names online – and booting many who refused.
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Details about the new Google Plus pseudonym policy implementation reveal new problems.
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#nymwars RT @EFF: Google+ changes tune on pseudonyms: step in the right direction, but still more to do: http://t.co/tSWA2sgi #nymwars...
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The anxious cyborgs who rule Google have decreed, after much controversy and deliberation, that they will alllow people to register accounts that do not match their official hu-man names.
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Google Plus made a small change to its “real name” policy but it still doesn’t support pseudonyms. |
