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You shouldn't rely on Mother Google or Daddy Facebook to fight your battles for you, because their interests are not the same as yours. Real Names was proteste
by cbhl 13y ago
You shouldn't rely on Mother Google or Daddy Facebook to fight your battles for you, because their interests are not the same as yours.
Real Names was protested to death the moment that Google+ came out; my understanding is that their compromise was that your entire Google profile was to use the same name, but that name could be a pseudonym so long as it was realistic. (If your legal name was weird, well, too bad, send in some ID.)
There's nothing we can do about this now, whining about it on HN. Choose to stop using YouTube, switch to a new account with a pseudonym, use Vimeo instead, start your own.
- makomk 13y agoThere's a huge amount of social pressure against being so paranoid about whether Google or Facebook might hypothetically decide to do something bad in the future. Saying that people should stop whining about it once it actually happens is effectively equivalent to saying that no-one should complain about it at all.