Facebook co-founder: Anonymity on internet must end

[michelbel]

Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s marketing director, has a fix for cyberbullying: stop people from doing anything online without their names attached.

Facebook requires all members to use their real names and email addresses when joining the social network -- a policy that has been difficult at times to enforce, as the prevalence of spam accounts or profiles assigned to people’s pets suggest.

Zuckerberg, who is Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, argued that putting an end to anonymity online could help curb bullying and harassment on the web.

“I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away,” she said during a panel discussion on social media hosted Tuesday evening by Marie Claire magazine. “People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. … I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.”
I totally agree. I'm fed up being bullied by faceless and nameless guys online, just because I dare show my photos. Stop hating me because I look better and work as a model!

[Allenson]

http://geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2010/02/2010-02-25-zoolander.jpg??

[Curtis24]

Well, I agree with him insofar as that anonymity, creates a toxic culture online.

[michelbel]

I've been threatened with assaults and even murder online.

[Neanderthal]

Come on lol

[poiuytrewq0987]

Randi can suck my dick.

[007]

:eek:

[Neanderthal]

I totally agree. I'm fed up being bullied by faceless and nameless guys online, just because I dare show my photos. Stop hating me because I look better and work as a model!

What would you do if they weren't anonymous anyway? punch them in the face?:rolleyes:

[michelbel]

punch them in the face?:rolleyes:
Exactly! :thumbs up

[Lahtari]

Facebook requires all members to use their real names and email addresses when joining the social network -- a policy that has been difficult at times to enforce, as the prevalence of spam accounts or profiles assigned to people’s pets suggest.

So, how are you going to stop me being anonymous in the internet? Preventing me from posting unless I go there and show my ID card to you personally? :D :rolleyes:

Greetings,

Randy Rabbitt


I've been threatened with assaults and even murder online.

How about contacting the police?

[The Lawspeaker]

O.K Zuckerberg: what about me trying to bring my friends to the Dutch network site Hyves and abandoning your little site ? How's that for you ?

Greetings,

Jan Zondernaam

[Óttar]

This is insidious. First they ask you if you want to link your YouTube account to a Google account repeatedly, and after you decline repeatedly, then they force you to do it! :mad: and they say it is to "prevent identity theft!" Wake up people! I at least want to take a chance at having my identity stolen rather than being forced to link my accounts so that administrators can spy on me, on my purchases, at who I associate with, what porn I fap to, etc.

Like they give a shit about cyberbullying! These people are insidious Stalinist Communazi fucks!

[Lahtari]

This is insidious. First they ask you if you want to link your YouTube account to a Google account repeatedly, and after you decline repeatedly, then they force you to do it! :mad: and they say it is to "prevent identity theft!" Wake up people! I at least want to take a chance at having my identity stolen rather than being forced to link my accounts so that administrators can spy on me, on my purchases, at who I associate with, what porn I fap to, etc.

Like they give a shit about cyberbullying! These people are insidious Stalinist Communazi fucks!

Here, have a gmail for all your communication. Oh, you don't want to? Well, doesn't matter, all your friends are already using it, so we'll just read your emails anyway. Don't want to have a fakebook account and have your face in the fakebook database with the new fakebook fake rekognition program that kan rekognize your fake and your identity whenever someone in da fakebook puts your fake into it? No problem, since your friends already put your fake and da name into da fakebook and it's database for everyone to be rekognized.

http://tango.naurunappula.com/thumb/0/thumb/535063.jpg
Problem?

[Groenewolf]

That problem with not go away with ending anonymity. Those bullies will still find ways to bully their targets if they want to. And it is not a compensation for a bad upbringing. However I think it is more about what is not being said, namely it would be easier to find out the real identities of people with dissident political opinions.


O.K Zuckerberg: what about me trying to bring my friends to the Dutch network site Hyves and abandoning your little site ? How's that for you ?

Almost forgot about my account there.:D

[Loki]

Anonymity is generally good, it allows many people to express their innermost feelings without having to fear real-life social repercussions. It should never end.

[Loki]

Randi can suck my dick.

He'd probably like it, though.

[michelbel]

I think posting as your pet is cute, actually. But registering on Facebook, pretending you're another person is wrong.

[BeerBaron]

Not surprising at all. Did anyone really believe the internet would remain anon forever? I can see both sides of the argument, but there is little doubt in my mind which side the gov's would rather have.

[HungAryan]

If internet anonymity will end, I won't be able to troll any more people :(

[ChAoZ]

Facebook is just scared of receiving more court-sues against them for having pedophiles or rapists on their social networking site, that most likely don't even use their real name or picture, however. There is always a way to stay anonymous on the web, some companies just really think they can change the world and be the today's super hero by inventing something like an Internet passport (Kaspersky's big clue and inventive idea), but they all know that those known people will not stop anyway.

Regards

[Curtis24]

In truth, I agree with him. The Internet is such a cesspool precisely because people can say things anonymously. You should have your name appear next to each of your comments and posts, anywhere.

[The Lawspeaker]

In truth, I agree with him. The Internet is such a cesspool precisely because people can say things anonymously. You should have your name appear next to each of your comments and posts, anywhere.
So if you have inconvenient ideas the Stasi (or whatever they call them in each country) can come and pick you up ?

[Stars Down To Earth]

In truth, I agree with him. The Internet is such a cesspool precisely because people can say things anonymously.
Then stay off the internet, you oversensitive cunt.



You should have your name appear next to each of your comments and posts, anywhere.
Of course, so the governments and corporations can see who is posting what, and if it smells of political incorrectness. How fun.

[Scrapple]

In truth, I agree with him. The Internet is such a cesspool precisely because people can say things anonymously. You should have your name appear next to each of your comments and posts, anywhere.

So why haven't you changed your username to your real name. :cool:

But in reality it doesn't matter unless you are savvy enough to use tor, surf in fully encrypted mode http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=surf+the+web+encrypted or hide yourself behind proxies the ISP's know who you are and will give it up if ordered by the courts.

[Curtis24]

Then stay off the internet, you oversensitive cunt.



This is precisely what I'm talking about. Some people go on the Internet to discuss ideas and meet other people. Others, because they can act in ways they would never dare in real life. The latter are ruining the whole thing for everyone else.


So if you have inconvenient ideas the Stasi (or whatever they call them in each country) can come and pick you up ?


The Internet is already intensely monitored. The government already keeps track of everything we say, monitoring for "dangerous ideas".