NYMWARS Comics - Google as Borg. This Blog Thursday, September 8, 2011 NYMWARS Comics - Google as Borg Posted by Botgirl Questi at 10:26 AM Email ThisBlogThis! Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: nymwars parody comic google+ 1 comment: Joey1058 said... Resistance is futile, indeed! September 8, 2011 at 4:27 PM Post a Comment Links to this post Create a Link Newer PostOlder PostHome. Diaspora still trying to reinvent social networks with open source - G+ before G+ Most people won't have even heard of it. Diaspora is an up and coming social network which is getting a lot more attention in some circles in the wake of Google+'s 'real names' policy. Users are climbing on board after being tipped off that there's a network just like Google+, only without having anything to do with Google, where you can be who you want to be, how you want to be, and still retain full ownership of everything you put there.
Currently invite-only and in alpha, preparing to roll out beta, Diaspora is an open-source social network. It's run on free software that anyone with a little bit of coding know-how can get involved in developing. The community involvement in running the site is huge. From spreading the word to community support, it's all open for volunteering. Unlike Facebook and Google+, company-run businesses which aim to get as much data from you as they possibly can, the guys behind Diaspora take a completely different view: It is an underdog.
Profiles Pseudonymity Debate Coverage. Expiranting on Nymwars with Avatar Kinect. To those who say they “don’t get it”… (Google, G+, etc) | BonnieNadri.Com. To all the people who keep saying, “It’s a service; if you don’t like it, don’t use it.” the following thoughts which, obviously, you are very keen on avoiding but which (also obviously) are salient whether you avoid them or not: Google is the number one provider of search and search-related advertising services in the world.Google’s policies to date have been both pseudonym and consumer privacy/choice friendly (ignoring for a moment those pesky Buzz issues, eh?). Google’s reach, influence, and overall power in relation to (a) online presence, (b) the ability to affect or repress expression and speech is more consistent, more actualized, and higher than any other company on the planet. Now, all this said, are you truly obtuse enough to think that not using Google at all is a viable option for people who want to be engaged and involved online?
I’m sure some of you will immediately try to distract the discussion by claiming that Google+ is not, in fact, Google overall. THIS is the point. Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network. Nymwars. Nymwars refers to conflicts over policies mandating that users of Internet services identify themselves using legal names.
The term is a neologism, a portmanteau of "pseudonym" and "wars". The name appears to have gained prominence as the hashtag "#nymwars" on Twitter. Conflicts regarding Google+ began in July 2011 when the social networking site began enforcing its real name only policy by suspending the accounts of users it felt were not following the policy.[1] Pseudonyms, nicknames, and non-standard real names (for example, mononyms or names that include scripts from multiple languages) were suspended. A predecessor to the Google+ conflict was Blizzard's RealID, which starting in July 2010, exposes the name on the player's credit card, and is mandatory to use some game features (cross-game chat) and was nearly made mandatory to post on discussion forums.[2][3][4] Google[edit] Google Plus was launched in late June 2011.
Google policy[edit] According to Google's official support page, Name change. Name change certificate issued by Christian X of Denmark in 1917 A pseudonym can be regarded as a name adopted to conceal a person's identity, and does not always require legal sanction. Additionally, there are other reasons for informal changes of name that are not done for reasons of concealment, but for personal, social or ideological reasons.
United States[edit] The applicant may be required to give a reasonable explanation for wanting to change her or his name. A fee is generally payable, and the applicant may be required to post legal notices in newspapers to announce the name change. In nearly all states, a person cannot choose a name that is intended to mislead (such as adopting a celebrity's name), that is intentionally confusing, or that incites violence; nor can one adopt, as a name, a racial slur, a threat, or an obscenity. Informal methods of legal name change[edit] Assumed name[edit] Usage method[edit] Official registration[edit] United Kingdom[edit] England & Wales[edit]
First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights was originally proposed as a measure to assuage Anti-Federalist opposition to Constitutional ratification. Initially, the First Amendment applied only to laws enacted by the Congress, and many of its provisions were interpreted more narrowly than they are today. Beginning with Gitlow v. In Everson v. The Free Press Clause protects publication of information and opinions, and applies to a wide variety of media. Text Background Establishment of religion In Reynolds v. In Torcaso v. Separationists U.S. Portal:Discrimination. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Antiziganism is hostility, prejudice or racism directed at the Romani people, commonly called Gypsies. The Roma — who have often been stereotyped as thieves, tramps, con men and fortune tellers — have been subject to various forms of discrimination throughout history.
Due in part to their semi-nomadic and isolationist lifestyle, and differences in language and culture, there has been a great deal of mutual distrust between the Roma and the more settled indigenous inhabitants of the areas to which the Roma migrated. This distrust has persisted even though Roma who migrated into Europe often converted to Christianity, and those who arrived in the Middle East became Muslims. Persecution of Roma reached a peak during World War II in the Porajmos, the Nazi genocide of Roma during the Holocaust.
Antizigan discrimination has continued in the 2000s, particularly in the Balkans, in areas such as Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia. More... RFC 1855 - Netiquette Guidelines. [Docs] [txt|pdf] [draft-ietf-run-ne...] [Diff1] [Diff2] INFORMATIONAL Network Working Group S. Hambridge Request For Comments: 1855 Intel Corp. FYI: 28 October 1995 Category: Informational Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document provides a minimum set of guidelines for Network Etiquette (Netiquette) which organizations may take and adapt for their own use. 1.0 Introduction In the past, the population of people using the Internet had "grown up" with the Internet, were technically minded, and understood the nature of the transport and the protocols.
RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines October 1995 an account through a corporation, that those organizations have regulations about ownership of mail and files, about what is proper to post or send, and how to present yourself. 2.0 One-to-One Communication (electronic mail, talk) Google fined in Brazil for refusing to reveal bloggers' identities. Google wants to force people to use their real names online, say many Google+ detractors. Yet, it’s precisely for defending three bloggers’ right to anonymity that its Brazilian subsidiary was fined this Thursday by a local judge. Let’s have a look at what happened. Varzea Alegre’s mayor vs. Google Brasil Varzea Alegre may be a small town of 38,000 inhabitants in the State of Ceara, in Northern Brazil, but the decision its local judge pronounced yesterday probably didn’t go unnoticed in Mountain View.
It all started at the beginning of the year, when Varzea Alegre’s mayor sued Google Brasil, asking for the company to remove three anonymous blogs accusing him of corruption and embezzlement. More than an isolated case? This case puts into light the difficulties facing Brazilian bloggers. It’s also worth noting that this case is only one of the many requests Google receives from the Brazilian government and its representatives. This may come as a surprise from a democracy such as Brazil. Google+ Begins Verification Badge Program. Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You'll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news.
Google rolled out a new verification badge program Saturday, making it so celebrities, public figures and those who have amassed vast numbers of people in their circles can verify their identities with a check mark and a small banner that rolls out next to their names. According to a Google+ post from Google+ team member Wen-Ai Yu, "We’re working on expanding this to more folks. " As you can see in the video, she doesn't describe exactly how these verifications work. The program, along with Google's insistence that user accounts be opened under a real name, aims to assure people that "the person you're adding to a circle is really who they claim to be. " Google's Wen-Ai Yu explains: [via CNET] Google Plus must stop this Identity Theatre. Bruce Schneier in Beyond Fear coined a phrase: one of the goals of a security countermeasure is to provide people with a feeling of security in addition to the reality.
But some countermeasures provide the feeling of security instead of the reality. These are nothing more than security theater. They're palliative at best. The Common Names debâcle at Google Plus is a variant of this, where the supposed protections are manifestly not working. Google's stated policy on this is that you should use your 'common name' - normatively defined to have exactly two words in it, in a naïve English speaking way, that fails in a huge number of common English cases, let alone other languages. Vic Gundotra has said he is trying to make sure a positive tone gets set here.
So it is explicitly designed to exclude 'people not like us' from the space. Early users can set the tone for a network, but one that has aspirations to include most people will need to support multiple different communities within it. 1. Right, Google, you stupid cunts, this is simply not on! [Stilgherrian writes: Oh dear. This post has generated a lot of interest. Thank you for that interest. But if you're visiting for the first time, I strongly suggest you also read my lengthy response to commenters and the fair warning before posting your own comment.] I knew this would happen sooner or later. What’s worse, this is how they tell you. They suspend your profile, tell you your name is wrong, and tell you to change it.
Your profile has been suspended.It appears that the name you entered doesn’t comply with our Names Policy.The Names Policy requires that you use the name that you are commonly referred to in real life in your profile. Listen, Googlecunts. This is the name I’m “commonly referred to in real life”. Did you even look to see if that were true before acting? Not only that, it’s the name that I have consistently used on every legal document, from passport to Medicare card, from property leases to witness statements, for thirty… fucking… years!
Dear Google, - Diary of a CrazyFrench. Firecat | Community Standards: A Comparison of Dreamwidth and Google+ I know that Google+ and Dreamwidth are very different services, and that there's no particular need for people to choose only one of them. But when I saw this post I was inspired to do a similar comparison. Standards: A Comparison of Facebook vs. Google+" Identification Dreamwidth:You need to choose a username to use the service, but it needs bear no relationship to any other name you might use. This quote is from the FAQ about changing your journal's username. our username restrictions: 25 or fewer characters with letters, numbers, and hyphens (-) only, with the first and last characters of the username being letters and numbers only.
You can create an account that is a community, which can be posted to by more than one person. Google:Their name policy includes the following rules: Community Guidelines Both Google and Dreamwidth disallow abuse, hate speech, invasion of privacy, illegal content, spam, and impersonation. Miscellany: Pseudonyms vs. Autonyms. Recently there's been a controversy concerning Google's "Google+" social network. It seems that Google is actively enforcing a policy of using "real names" on the service. To quote from the published justification: Google services support three different types of use when it comes to your identity: unidentified, pseudonymous, identified.
Google Profiles is a product that works best in the identified state. Google says they support three types of identities, but for Google Profiles "identified" ones (shown to be the same as on state-issued documents) work best. This rationale is clearly very weak. The use of the word "pseudonym" by both Google and the (innocent) victims of their policy to describe the name they are using, is, I believe revelatory of the source of the problem and needs to be cleared up. Pseudonym comes to English from the Greek. So today I will coin two terms which I believe are essentially relevant. But, they might argue, those people are widely known by that name.
Skud | I’ve been suspended from Google+ Mirrored from Infotropism. You can comment there or here. So, just to backtrack and fill everyone in on the details: I’ve been a strong advocate of pseudonymity for a considerable time. Hacker News and pseudonymity is a good example of my writing on the subject, from June last year. The startup I worked for was acquired by Google in July 2010. Viral shows off his home-made "I know Skud" button, on my second-last day at Google So today, I got off a plane this afternoon to find a pile of tweets, emails, and blog comments asking whether it was true that my Google+ account had been suspended.
I know there’s a lot of people wondering what happens when you get suspended, so here is my experience so far. Gmail works fine, I can check my email. When I click on “+Skud” in my Google toolbar (top left), it takes me to Google+, and I can see my stream, and that 16 new people are following me. Your profile is suspended. Anyway, I clicked through the form, which looked like this: Update, July 23rd. Skud | More comments on Google+ and names. Google Plus: Deleted, not suspended. Google+ bans real name under ‘Real Names’ policy. Designing for Social Norms (or How Not to Create Angry Mobs) Suspended Google+ Accounts. Reddragdiva | How to back up your Google stuff BEFORE they lock your account. Google+, the pseudonym banstick, and the netizen cultural schism. « point7. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. Who is harmed by a "Real Names" policy? Does Google+ hate women? « Bug Girl’s Blog.