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Scumbags don't take kindly to opposing viewpoints

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Oh, Don't Act So Surprised. You Knew This was the Plan!

Republicans Admit That Creating Jobs HURTS Republicans!... more

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Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg: Cyberbullying Stops When Anonymity Online Ends

An article by Bianca Bosker, a contributor to Huffington Post, First Posted: 7/27/11 12:23 PM ET Updated: 7/27/11 12:53 PM ET http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/27/randi-zuckerberg-anonymity-online_n_910892.html

"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........”
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Comments from Buckeye_Bill on the article in question:

This will piss off a whole lot of trolls and those who wish to post some of the most obnoxious comments and expect to get away with it by using the subterfuge of anonymity! I dare say that this would stop many of the ad hominem attacks that infect site after site of those who hide behind a facade to keep others from knowing who they really are! Perchance this could cut down on a lot of "clones" that roam the "intertubes" or someone who has multiple screen names to use as an attack on one particular thread or article.

What is your impression of this possibility to come? Are you for or against opening yourself up to the whole, entire World Wide Web for either acclaim or ridicule? For all to see the why, what, where, when and most especially who you are!

The "lines are open"..........fire away!

Ring, ring..."And we have our first caller! So, what's your name, caller?" LOL!An article by Bianca Bosker, a contributor to Huffington Post, First Posted: 7/27/11... more

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THE WAR - Hackers vs Scientology - Project Chanology

In January 2008 some members of an Internet-based collective known as Anonymous began... more

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No More Taxes: Bitcoin

How To Use Bitcoin – The Most Important Creation In The History Of Man

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Anonymous comments killing Blogs? « Ramanan50's Blog

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Rape defendants to be granted anonymity despite outrage

The Telegraph reports on the Government plans to set legislation on anonymity for rape... more

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Changes made to rape anonymity

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Just by visiting this website, you reveal who you are

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How 10 digits will end privacy as we know it

Internet denizens and urban dwellers alike need to recognize that an era of anonymity is ending.

The population of the world stands at about 7 billion. So it takes only 10 digits to label each human being on the planet uniquely.

This simple arithmetic observation offers powerful insight into the limits of privacy. It dictates something we might call the 10-Digit Rule: just 10 digits or so of distinctive personal information are enough to identify you uniquely. They're enough to strip away your anonymity on the Internet or call out your name as you walk down the street. The 10-Digit Rule means that as our electronic gadgets grow chattier, and databases swell, we must accept that in most walks of life, we'll soon be wearing our names on our foreheads.

A study of 1990 U.S. Census data revealed that 87 percent of the people in the United States were uniquely identifiable with just three pieces of information (PDF): five-digit ZIP code, gender, and date of birth. Internet surfers today spew considerably more information than that. Web sites can pinpoint our geographical locations, computer models, and browser types, and they can silently track us using cookies. Banking sites even confirm our identities by verifying that our log-ins take place at consistent times of day.

Database dossiers, too, carry surprising amounts of identifying information, even when specifically anonymized for privacy. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin last year studied a set of movie-rating profiles from about 500,000 unnamed Netflix subscribers (PDF).

Knowing just a little about a subscriber--say, six to eight movie preferences, the type of thing you might post on a social-networking site--the researchers found that they could pick out your anonymous Netflix profile, if you had one in the set. The Netflix study shows that those 10 deanonymizing digits can hide in surprising places.

Our physical belongings also betray our anonymity by silently calling out identity-betraying digits. Small wireless microchips--often called radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags--reside in car keys, credit cards, passports, building entrance badges, and transit passes. They emit unique serial numbers.

Once linked to our names--when we make credit card purchases, for instance--these microchips enable us to be tracked without our realizing it. One popular book inflames imaginations with the lurid title, "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with RFID."

But wireless microchips also highlight the futility of anonymity protections. To begin with, concerns about RFID tracking miss the forest for the trees. After all, mobile phones are ubiquitous and can be tracked at much longer ranges than standalone chips. Many people have GPS receivers in their phones and are signing up for location-based services, voluntarily (if selectively) disclosing their movements. There's little point in hiding the serial numbers of chips when your mobile phone squeals on you.

Many scientists (including me) have developed antitracking techniques for mobile phones and microchips. Instead of fixed serial numbers, wireless devices can call out changing pseudonyms, such as the rotating license plate numbers on spies' cars in the movies. The problem is that the plates may change, but the car always looks the same. In this regard, chips are like cars.

Scientists at ETH Zurich recently showed how to identify microchips uniquely using radio waves (PDF)--and consequently to see through the disguise of pseudonyms. Their experiments showed that thanks to manufacturing variations, microchips, laptop Wi-Fi cards, and other devices can't help but emit physical "fingerprints"--essentially God-given serial numbers. More digits that we radiate unknowingly.

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Gaymers

Anonymous hate has taken hold on the Internet, and as homophobia has become rampant in... more

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The Two Faces of Anonymous

This is my investigative piece on Anonymous. I hired an actor to replace the computer... more

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PUBLIC is the new PRIVATE

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Haters Anonymous

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Sexual Secrets of JuicyCampus.com

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Are you really Anonymous on the Web?

Okay, so we all feel like we're safe on the internet. We hide behind an alias, an... more

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Christian & Muslim develop relationship online

The anonymity of attending church online at lifechurch.tv allows a Christian and... more

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Anonymity on the web - A positive story

Anonymity is a popular discussion when related to the web. We have heard people using... more

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Anonymity on the web from a pastor's perspective

Anonymity can be used for good or bad on the web

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Creating a Non Violent World - Is it Really Possible?

Introduction—Confronting the Ideological Beast

America is desperately searching for heroes! If this were not true we would not see the incredible success of blockbuster action movies featuring mostly males with superhuman powers who fight for the underdogs by battling greed, injustice, and corruption of power. We have all seen time and again, story after story, encounters between the forces of good and the forces of evil; and we are constantly being challenged to take a side and fight. The emphasis of popular culture in mass media is a perpetuation of violence as the primary solution to the problem of enforcing the American Dream—“The Myth” (Hedges); like Superman fighting for “truth, justice, and the American way of life.” This portrayal of violence as a necessary judicial tool works inevitably to subjugate the most vulnerable people of our planet, namely women and children. It accomplishes this by portraying unrealistic ideologies and distorting and exaggerating differences among race, class, gender, age, sexuality, and especially religion. The media uses images that “shock and awe” our sensibilities—causing us to constantly react—deflecting our attention away from resistance and away from collective empowerment. “One of the most obvious signs of widespread acceptance of violence is the amount of it that routinely appears in media.” (Wood 314) Violence has become a pervasive part of our reality causing us to react with fear—a state in which we can be easily controlled and manipulated.

The media is a multinational enterprise—an “Eminent Domain”—which is the luxury of a privileged few who influence our popular culture and control the mechanism through which the mythologies of popular culture are transfixed. Its primary existence serves to preserve their control of global socio-economics in posterity by bombarding us with so much violence that we scarcely have time to be aware of the fact that we are being manipulated. However, there are those subtle geniuses who emerge from the frontlines and through personal experience have concluded that the status quo is a never ending merry-go-round leading to the annihilation of both sides. In other words, they have come to realize that hero fixation is a sickness that symbiotically—Ying Yang, 69—enforces victimization. These geniuses work behind the scenes influencing the media content, often changing its’ focus or challenging accepted norms. Although there are many people who are actively participating in efforts to transform the socio-economic landscape on many different fronts whether through academia, media, or politics, the most effective means to communicate ideas is through writing.Introduction—Confronting the Ideological Beast America is desperately... more

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