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Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest. 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. 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: Profiles Pseudonymity Debate Coverage. Expiranting on Nymwars with Avatar Kinect. To those who say they “don’t get it”… (Google, G+, etc)
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. 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]
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] 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. New York (1925), the Supreme Court applied the First Amendment to states—a process known as incorporation—through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In Everson v. Text Background In Reynolds v. 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. 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. Google fined in Brazil for refusing to reveal bloggers' identities. Google+ Begins Verification Badge Program. 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. 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.] Dear Google, - Diary of a CrazyFrench. 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. Miscellany: Pseudonyms vs. Autonyms. I’ve been suspended from Google+ Mirrored from Infotropism. You can comment there or here. More comments on Google+ and names. Mirrored from Infotropism. Google Plus: Deleted, not suspended. Google+ bans real name under ‘Real Names’ policy.
High performance access to file storage. Designing for Social Norms (or How Not to Create Angry Mobs) Suspended Google+ Accounts. How to back up your Google stuff BEFORE they lock your account. You get up tomorrow and log into GMail. Google+, the pseudonym banstick, and the netizen cultural schism. « point7. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
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