{"id":2855,"date":"2011-08-02T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T02:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2011-08-02T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T02:01:09","slug":"randi-zuckerberg-on-anonymity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/08\/02\/randi-zuckerberg-on-anonymity\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Randi Zuckerberg on Anonymity"},"content":{"rendered":"

HuffPo<\/a> (I hate linking to these guys):<\/p>\n

\u201cI think anonymity on the Internet has to go away,\u201d she said during a panel discussion on social media hosted Tuesday evening by\u00a0Marie Claire<\/em>\u00a0magazine. \u201cPeople behave a lot better when they have their real names down. \u2026 I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt\u00a0has also made this suggestion<\/a>, calling online anonymity \u201cdangerous<\/a>\u201d and predicting that governments will eventually \u201cdemand<\/a>\u201d that people use their names for all online activity.<\/p>\n

But the proposal to tie real-world identities to online actions is a controversial one, with many privacy and free speech advocates countering that anonymity is necessary to protect dissidents and other individuals, such as sexual abuse victims.<\/p>\n

Gigaom\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Matthew Ingram\u00a0wrote recently<\/a>, \u201cMany people believe that requiring real names will solve the problems of trolls and bad behavior, but they don\u2019t — and that policy can have negative consequences in terms of suppressing dialogue about important topics.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There will likely ALWAYS be places on the web where you can be an anonymous contributor. I will always avoid these places. I don’t read anonymous comments or posts. I pay no mind to false identities that email me hate and give their opinions on how much I suck. I will always lend credibility to those who decide to be themselves.<\/p>\n

I hope this is the future of the web. The Federal Government is already testing identities that each person is given that travels with them online. You are #xxxxxxxxxx no matter where you go online and the feds track that. I have nothing to hide. Bring it on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HuffPo (I hate linking to these guys): \u201cI think anonymity on the Internet has to go away,\u201d she…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-K3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":276,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/sfgate-comments-on-anonymity\/","url_meta":{"origin":2855,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 SFGate Comments on Anonymity","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"May 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"SFGate.com is the online destination of The San Francisco Chronicle and I'm pretty sure all of their print stories are put on the website but it's a known fact that the comments on SFGate are only a step above YouTube in the category of ignorance, grammar mistakes and trolling. 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