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Straw man. Regardless: 4chan is not a model for Internet privacy.

• Karunamon 15y ago
  John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory would seem to disagree with you. I'm okay with this stance. If you don't want to use real names, find another service.
  • mechanical_fish 15y ago
    You do realize that (a) The John Gabriel Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory is a joke, and (b) its inventor, John Gabriel, is a fictional character with a fake name?
  • ubernostrum 15y ago
    Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell, George Eliot, George Sand, Richard Bachman and Nicolas Bourbaki, among others, would like a word with this theory.
  • SteveJS 15y ago
    In this case there is another service, but that argument is quite weak in general. Here is a fantastic video with lots of legitimate criticism of that stand: http://www.securitytube.net/video/1084 http://www.securitytube.net/video/1084. At a certain point your choice is give up privacy or give up participation in society. Right now giving up G+ is not giving up email, or giving up having a cell phone, or giving up driving, but at a certain point it will be exactly like that.
    • nitrogen 15y ago
      At a certain point your choice is give up privacy or give up participation in society. Right now giving up G+ is not giving up email, or giving up having a cell phone, or giving up driving, but at a certain point it will be exactly like that. This is the argument that needs to be raised more frequently in these discussions. Until there is a unified architecture for social interaction across different networks, it is very important which networks you can access. If we don't have a unifying protocol that links all social networks, then in the end, there can be only one. Arguing that pseudonymous users should find a different service is equivalent to arguing that they should be entirely excluded from social interaction with the broader society.