Written by Right, and here comes happy clown candy world just in time to avoid being hunted down like dogs in the street of your favorite dictatorship. Happy Clown (google) pulling a letter man on the “man” turns Dictatorship into “Dic-tato-ship and well… sorry about that visual. But it’s harmless I promise!
I haven’t been suspended yet but I expect I’ve somehow slipped through only temporarily as the algorithms continually tighten around our pseudonymous (pronounced: Sue-Don-uh-mous) necks.
I read a post by Andy Carvin who asked Eric Schmidt a few questions regarding the current naming policy for Google+ and here’s a snippet:
He replied by saying that G+ was build primarily as an identity service, so fundamentally, it depends on people using their real names if they’re going to build future products that leverage that information.
I keep looking for some sanity in the Google+ “nymwar” as it’s being called. As always, we’re a lot funnier than the great mega gods in the lofty towers wondering why we want anonymity and what good would it do anyway?
Let me count the ways…
People trying to avoid the secret police as they subvert their dictatorship live longer lives anonymously.
People blowing the “whistle” often require the protection of things like the witness protection program. Being pseudonymous is a requirement.
People who are different and want to be judged not by their bodies but by the color of their ideas love their handles.
People who would like to complain about their companies bad practices without getting fired probably want anonymity.
People who don’t want their sister or their friends hounded by creditors. Heads up: I never place family, in the family circle. And friends are acquaintances… just to confuse things purposely for snoops, if you know me, then you know that.
People who are afraid of being judged who “come out” online first so they can inoculate themselves agains the hate they will surely endure once they publicly admit they’re bisexual.
People who want to admit that they’re breaking a law that is really unconstitutional like the law against smoking marijuana and because they smoked the entire time they were in prison, would like to highlight that important fact all while avoiding prosecution for an obviously stupid law.
People who are concerned that the genocidal maniac that just rose to power might want to murder them in their beds for their beliefs which they’d like to avoid (if at all possible). Sleeping with one eye open is not for everyone… or anyone for that matter.
LGBT People that aren’t out of the closet yet and don’t want to be hounded into suicide by a bunch of heartless right wing “christian” supremacist thugs.
Writers who would like to write about their bisexual fantasies without “hearing it” from their family about how they’re going to that place they don’t even believe in.
People who really don’t like the normalcy of a name like “Dave” and instead opt for a more descriptive term that reflects the grand vision they have seen that guides them on their journey through this life.
I’m sure there are many more examples of why anonymity and pseudonymity are important tools of the free thinking individual. Feel free to leave them in the comments.
Funny things that we might say about this nymwar stuff:
“You’ll have to pry my true identity from the cold, dead (but really cool looking!) hands of my avatar…”
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