Nymwars - Notes on privacy and anonymity

Talk for SuperMondays http://www.supermondays.org/ on 14/11/2011 about privacy, names, pseudonyms &c.

Transcript

1. hello my name is ‚
   A BRIEF CHAT (IN GREY AND NEON) BY @skipchris
   ABOUT NAMES, PSEUDONYMS &C
   Tuesday, 20 March 2012
   

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2. MAKE UP YOUR
   OWN MIND
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3. a name is a label
   for an identity
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4. IDENTITY
   accountability, ownership, authority
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5. MULTIPLE
   IDENTITY
   see what i did there?
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6. politics
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7. class
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8. sexuality
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9. gender
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10. race
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11. WOMEN!
    Opinions taken less seriously.
    Mothers or intending mothers may face hiring, pay and promotion discrimination.
    25 times more harassment online experienced by people with “feminine-sounding” usernames.
    http://www.physorg.com/news66401288.html
    Lots more at: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki
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12. LGBT!
    50% of LGBT teens experience bullying online.
    Some countries criminalise homosexuality, and a few have the death penalty.
    Many regions permit businesses to discriminate (i.e. hiring, providing services) against LGBT
    people.
    http://www.livescience.com/6199-cyberbullying-rampant-lesbian-gay-teens.html
    http://www.parentdish.com/2010/03/10/half-of-nonheterosexual-youth-say-theyre-bullied-
    online/
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13. I HOPE WE CAN
    AGREE THIS IS
    ISN’T COOL.
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14. Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/36266724@N06/3349194563/ (HighlandBlade)
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15. a brief
    tangent
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16. “People’s names change, but only at a certain
    enumerated set of events”
    “People’s names are case insensitive”
    “I can safely assume that this dictionary of bad
    words contains no people’s names in it.”
    “People have names”
    http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
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17. http://xkcd.com/327/
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18. EVIL!
    EVIL!
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19. If you are not paying
    for it, you're not the
    customer; you're the
    product being sold.
    http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent (blue_beetle)
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20. “Bad actors in the system will be much more
    reluctant to engage in bad behavio[u]r because
    their real names are attached to their actions”
    Khoi Vinh, Mixel/Subtraction.com
    http://mixel.cc/about/facebook-login
    MISGUIDED!
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21. ““Real names” policies aren’t
    empowering; they’re an
    authoritarian assertion of
    power over vulnerable people”
    http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/08/04/real-names.html
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22. SPEAK UP.
    DESIGN FOR RESPECT.
    CULTIVATE COMMUNITIES.
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23. ‚“thanks”
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