Reddit Bans Impersonation on Its Platform | The Verge

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[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That such a vague rule... technically everyone is acting like someone else, that's what culture is

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Does this apply to usernames, as well?

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So much for satire (allegedly allowed), sarcasm, etc.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

they should ban soy

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Bold move cotton! Lets see how it goes...

AAaand its still a dumpster fire, more refugees incoming!

[–]newguy 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

what are you so afraid of that you feel the need to go through all this effort of constantly deleting accounts

[–]ha45reher45h 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I have the complete opposite views as OP, but I do the same thing. Imho in the near future all internet comments will be collected, archived, and analyzed, and most identities will be revealed. But at least by using new accounts with weak passwords for each comment, I can maintain some level of plausible deniability.

[–]bald-janitor 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Hmm interesting

[–]Acid 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I hate to burst your bubble, but a modern AI can identify all your accounts and link them together into a nice profile to sell the data.

You'd have to be really fucking good to fool them, or lucky to be irrelevant.

[–]codeineblues 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The US politicians and Military are talking incessantly since 15 years+ that they want everyone to have an "Internet ID" card, that would be put into the router/modem so that everyone is using their real name, that or "less invasive" ISP software where you have to identify yourself, otherwise you will not be allowed in, even in if you pay a crazy amount for a fibre to home 300/300 connection like I do now. Thankfully I'm up north...if it ever comes to that, I'll only be reading on the internet, I already reduced my participation in forums where I was a mod even to maybe twice a month visits. Only reason left to keep it is to keep contact with friends/family, some gaming, and the obvious "piracy" that they encourage us to do here, especially since the 2005 Supreme Court decision that allows all Canadians to share music files with anybody, which is the only reason why CD-R's (they have a tax on them) are more expensive than DVD-R/DVD+R)....also why BD-R's are so expensive, got 3 Verbatim 50gb blu-rays and it was 25 bucks.

Also that didn't take into account the whole lot of people with car stereos that read file DVD's, so one can have 10-20 albums on one disc...I got that way back in 2004.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why must everything you don't understand be motivated by fear?

[–]newguy 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Because that's almost everyone's primary motivator when they're doing unnecessary things to protect themselves?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it makes sense, but I'd like to see how it's going to be implemenyed.

Hope they don't pick on my name.

[–]AnarchySpeach 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It still amazes me America hasn't implemented a government sponsored social media site.

I know china has their HappyChinaPerson System TM and it does great things for it's faithful citizens./s

Major thing to remember: Name Recondition scares the hell of governments. If several celerbrities got together and asked their fans to show up to protest somewhere, there would be thousands of people almost overnight. Now imagine A hacker takes control of a few accounts. "Bring your guns! March on the capital!" How many brainwashed idiots do think it would take before a riot squad started breaking noses?

My issue with reddit, facebook, and twitter all trying to promote Authentication is how easily that bullshit can be taken away. There is nothing in place to stop them from un-Authenticating you if you piss them off.

All of this is bullshit and a waste of time. Anonymity on the internet is one of its best features, and there's no point in "Authenticating" someone if you can take it away.

Fuck reddit. Fuck facebook. Fuck twitter.

[–]codeineblues 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Zuck didn't make FB what it is, the CIA did, so the US government has their social media indeed. See Lifelog and In-Q-Tel.