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Side note: What about just consistently using a handle? And that handle being part of your "brand"? What if Jay-Z decided to become a web developer? Primary no

Side note: What about just consistently using a handle? And that handle being part of your "brand"? What if Jay-Z decided to become a web developer? Primary note: African Americans could easily be labeled given the qualification of the nebulous "threat" clause, when it is in fact Old America (those likely to celebrate their licensed gun-ownership) that is going about shooting them in the face[0]. White supremicists, Men's Rights Advocates of many stripes, and the Tea Party are stridently making cases that African Americans are sub-human[1]; wherein it stands to reason they so too could be required to have "clearance" given their supposed "lack" of psychological integrity, etc. There are many nets and dragnets being cast to categorize arbitrary lots of "unmentionable" society. There's a significant rate of undiagnosed depression in the African American community[2]. [0]: http://www.upworthy.com/she-knocked-on-his-door-to-ask-for-help-he-shot-her-dead-why-isnt-justice-being-served?c=ufb1 http://www.upworthy.com/she-knocked-on-his-door-to-ask-for-h... [1]: http://whitelocust.wordpress.com/morality-and-abstract-thinking-how-africans-may-differ-from-westerners/ http://whitelocust.wordpress.com/morality-and-abstract-think... [2]: http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife/blogs/black-and-depressed-two-african-american-women-break-silence http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife/blogs/black-and-depress...

WalterBright 13y ago
> Tea Party are stridently making cases that African Americans are sub-human[1]; Your reference [1] makes no reference to the Tea Party.
- thenerdfiles 13y ago
  It saddens me that you destroyed my sentence. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/24/maddow-tea-party-apparently-no-longer-embarrassed-to-flaunt-its-racist-neo-confederate-roots/ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/24/maddow-tea-party-appar... That blog is an aggregation of Tea Party writers and commenters. Please... don't do what you're doing.
  - thenerdfiles 13y ago
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/tea-party-racist_n_4158262.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/tea-party-racist_n_... http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/racepolitics.html http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/racepolitics.html http://www.newsweek.com/are-tea-partiers-racist-70695 http://www.newsweek.com/are-tea-partiers-racist-70695 http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/13/liberals-on-twitter-one-idiot-with-confederate-flag-at-tea-party-rally-gop-is-racist/ http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/13/liberals-on-twitter-one-id... What happened to Web browsing ?
Crito 13y ago
> "Side note: What about just consistently using a handle? And that handle being part of your "brand"?" For me, there is too much cognitive overhead when you try to do this because you have to be constantly aware of what you have already said about yourself (going back years) and decide if additional information you are about to give could be used to disambiguate your identity by somebody who had access to the content of all your past online posts. For example, say that mention that I am from a small town in Vermont. On another website, years later but with the same uncommon handle, I mention that my highschool class only had 27 people in it. On another site, I mention that I once swam a 100 meter freestyle in under 55 seconds. Just with those three things, each fairly reasonable things to mention in various online discussions, an obsessed stalker could probably narrow me down to one of a few dozen people. Now that is not too bad, but those are only three mundane facts, and if I am using the same handle for years or decades... Handles that are hard to google without getting irrelevant results (such as my current handle) can certainly help, but that will only go so far. Counting on that is making assumptions about the capabilities of future web search technology.
- lelandbatey 13y ago
  I agree, I found it really not worth it for me to use a handle that was not my real name. I don't know about other people, but when I interact online, I don't act in a way that very different from how I act "IRL". Because who I am is the same online as it is in real life, obscuring just my name doesn't do me much benefit. The only way I could obscure my information online would be if I maintained an entirely different persona/identity entirely, with totally separate lives. Since I can't or won't do that (I'd feel vaguely dishonest), I just use my real name anyway.
  - thenerdfiles 13y ago
    So then the follow-up is: Did "Batman" come before the rogue vigilante, or after ? (Chicken-or-egg.)
  - Crito 13y ago
    "Because who I am is the same online as it is in real life, obscuring just my name doesn't do me much benefit." I operated like that for a few years, but then I realized that although my presentation of myself online is not that different from how I present myself in 'real life', there are examples in real life of situations where I present myself differently. For instance, I no longer discuss politics with family (in no small part out of respect for immediate family members who are now in the military. If I said to them what I am willing to say online, feelings would be hurt...)

WalterBright 13y ago

> Tea Party are stridently making cases that African Americans are sub-human[1]; Your reference [1] makes no reference to the Tea Party.

thenerdfiles 13y ago
It saddens me that you destroyed my sentence. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/24/maddow-tea-party-apparently-no-longer-embarrassed-to-flaunt-its-racist-neo-confederate-roots/ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/24/maddow-tea-party-appar... That blog is an aggregation of Tea Party writers and commenters. Please... don't do what you're doing.
- thenerdfiles 13y ago
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/tea-party-racist_n_4158262.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/tea-party-racist_n_... http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/racepolitics.html http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/racepolitics.html http://www.newsweek.com/are-tea-partiers-racist-70695 http://www.newsweek.com/are-tea-partiers-racist-70695 http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/13/liberals-on-twitter-one-idiot-with-confederate-flag-at-tea-party-rally-gop-is-racist/ http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/13/liberals-on-twitter-one-id... What happened to Web browsing ?

Crito 13y ago

> "Side note: What about just consistently using a handle? And that handle being part of your "brand"?" For me, there is too much cognitive overhead when you try to do this because you have to be constantly aware of what you have already said about yourself (going back years) and decide if additional information you are about to give could be used to disambiguate your identity by somebody who had access to the content of all your past online posts. For example, say that mention that I am from a small town in Vermont. On another website, years later but with the same uncommon handle, I mention that my highschool class only had 27 people in it. On another site, I mention that I once swam a 100 meter freestyle in under 55 seconds. Just with those three things, each fairly reasonable things to mention in various online discussions, an obsessed stalker could probably narrow me down to one of a few dozen people. Now that is not too bad, but those are only three mundane facts, and if I am using the same handle for years or decades... Handles that are hard to google without getting irrelevant results (such as my current handle) can certainly help, but that will only go so far. Counting on that is making assumptions about the capabilities of future web search technology.

lelandbatey 13y ago
I agree, I found it really not worth it for me to use a handle that was not my real name. I don't know about other people, but when I interact online, I don't act in a way that very different from how I act "IRL". Because who I am is the same online as it is in real life, obscuring just my name doesn't do me much benefit. The only way I could obscure my information online would be if I maintained an entirely different persona/identity entirely, with totally separate lives. Since I can't or won't do that (I'd feel vaguely dishonest), I just use my real name anyway.
- thenerdfiles 13y ago
  So then the follow-up is: Did "Batman" come before the rogue vigilante, or after ? (Chicken-or-egg.)
- Crito 13y ago
  "Because who I am is the same online as it is in real life, obscuring just my name doesn't do me much benefit." I operated like that for a few years, but then I realized that although my presentation of myself online is not that different from how I present myself in 'real life', there are examples in real life of situations where I present myself differently. For instance, I no longer discuss politics with family (in no small part out of respect for immediate family members who are now in the military. If I said to them what I am willing to say online, feelings would be hurt...)