↪ 2015-08-31 Mon 10:41, [email protected] <[email protected]>: > Facebook would not be likely to have existed if not for the real > names.
I do not think that allowing pseudonyms would have really lower the success of Facebook in terms of size. Why do I think that? Because in spite of the policy to exclude pseudonyms, a lot of users on Facebook do not use their real name anyway. > > I don't think there's anything quite as large as Facebook for this. > > I think Facebook is the biggest place, yes. But what is "for this"? With Facebook, anyone can easily publish posts without having to configure a server or a blog. It's very easy and it has a massive size. By “this” I meant “publishing on the Web for individuals”, which is what I believe Facebook is mainly (in terms of what it's used for by the majority of users). > So I guess, I just don't understand why someone would want to be anonymous on > a platform, that is mostly useful, because you're not anonymous. An important distinction to make: this is not about anonymity. Someone with a pseudonym is not anonymous. Anonymous means "no name" at all whereas, with a pseudonym, you have a name; it's just not the same name that the State has registered for you. There are a lot of people who are actually known under a pseudonym more than under their “civil name”. But maybe this rule is not up to date, can you check the terms today regarding what users are allowed to do with pseudonyms? Thank you, -- Hugo Roy Project Lead, Terms of Service; Didn't Read https://www.tosdr.org Please use cryptography for email: see https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ Merci d’utiliser la cryptographie pour l’email : voir https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/fr/ -- 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.
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