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Like so many things, this is something that has existed forever but now it has a new fashionable name and people treat it like it was just invented.
by dkjaudyeqooe 5y ago
Like so many things, this is something that has existed forever but now it has a new fashionable name and people treat it like it was just invented.
- Mediterraneo10 5y agoBefore the Web 2.0 internet made people’s real names so public, it was in fact quite difficult for things many people did to affect their employment. Your employer simply wouldn’t have been aware of how you were acting somewhere else outside their direct purview. Now, however, if an opponent knows that you are employed at X, they can bring pressure on X to fire you in an extremely public way, such that your employer will buckle to the social pressure lest it affect their bottom line. That simply would not have happened so often prior to about 2007 at least.
- dkjaudyeqooe 5y agoMaybe I'm just old, but I think using your real identity online always was, and always is, idiotic.
- AlexCoventry 5y agoIt's a continuation of earlier enforcement of social norms, but what's new is that it's so much more accessible and effective now.