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The Real Name Fallacy - Coral by Vox Media
- "To exist on platforms is to be subject to this kind of continual identity reconstitution, to fluidity. Self-branding attempts to hide this inevitability by claiming agency over it, as though by choosing to turn our identity into capital, it becomes a free choice. Self-obfuscation, on the other hand, effectively embraces it through a kind of acce... See more
Emma Stamm • Who Can It Be Now — Real Life
However, in every system that I have experienced where anonymity becomes common, the system fails. Communities saturated with anonymity will either self-destruct or shift from the purely anonymous to the pseudo-anonymous, as in eBay, where you have a traceable identity behind a persistent invented nickname.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
First, identity authentication can ensure that everyone on the platform is a human entitled to join the platform...no bots, and maybe no commercial companies. It used to be that knowing someone’s identity was necessary to ensure that they had rights to participate. But much of the toxicity of current social media interactions is about identities as... See more
Alex Pentland • Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation — Digitalist Papers
To suggest that the internet is where indigenous peoples, stateless immigrants, the unemployed and impoverished, and the incarcerated should contest their marginalization and disposability is not just wrong but malevolently irresponsible.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
Banks and other industries have “know your customer” rules so that they can’t do business with anonymous clients laundering money from criminal enterprises. Large social-media platforms should be required to do the same. That does not mean users would have to post under their real names; they could still use a pseudonym. It just means that before a... See more