Den torsdag den 4. oktober 2012 kl. 18.35.58 UTC+2 skrev Hugo Roy: > Hi, > > This is a unified point for services which require you to express > yourself under your legal name. > [mediocre] > You must use your legal name publicly on the service. Using a > pseudonym or a pen name is not allowed. This can have negative > consequences on the freedom of expression, especially for people > who exercise certain professions, or who live in certain > countries. > > This point supersedes: > * Facebook > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tosdr/gOTE95JnvCk/discussion > * Xing > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tosdr/_he1077OGTY/discussion > -- > Hugo Roy > French Coordinator, FSFE chat: [email protected] > www.fsfe.org/about/roy mobile: +336 08 74 13 41 > mobile DE: +49 151 143 56 563
I don't think "no pseudonyms allowed" are necessarily an overall bad thing, neither a non-obvious thing. From a quick glance at Facebook, it's pretty clear that pseudonyms are almost exclusively used by fake profiles and spampots. I understand how pseudonyms can protect some people, who would like free speech, but cannot for whatever reason. But disallowing pseudonyms also allow you to know that what they say is something they're not afraid to take responsibility for. When you talk with someone on Facebook, you can be far more sure, that you're talking to a person who is who he says he is, and thus, you avoid some parts of "trolling", i.e. pretending to be someone you're not, in the effort to trick people. That can still happen on Facebook, of course, but I think it's enough to not make it a conclusively negative thing. And it's clearly possible to find places to by anynomous elsewhere, and still reach a big audience. After all, the vast majority of sites allow pseudonyms, including social media sites. -- tosdr.org | twitter.com/tosdr | github.com/tosdr --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tosdr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
