AndiS

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   by AndiS 13y ago

   G+ was my public-facing platform, the place where I engaged with people who I didn't know (most of my posts are public there.) It's separate from my normal online identity, deliberately (the people who read my friendslocked pos
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   by AndiS 13y ago

   To be clear, that wasn't my term (it was the title of a link that I reposted), but I agree with you -- I'd have personally chosen something with less of the weight of history and atrocity behind it.
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   by AndiS 13y ago

   BTW, nothing like a casual doxxing on a public forum to make my point about the need for real privacy controls, and how unsafe lack of anonymity/effective pseudonymity on the web can make women, in particular, feel. Congratulations, I&
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   by AndiS 13y ago

   What Amagumori said -- I can block/delete harassing comments (and do, on a regular basis), but I am far more concerned with murder/rape threats from people who know where I live . I'm a big girl, I can deal with crude come-o
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   by AndiS 13y ago

   I have since linked it to a dead-end G+ page. However, I wasn't given the option to do so initially -- I was confronted with my name and photo appearing on a comment that I'd been leaving under my YT identity (which is deliberate
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   by AndiS 13y ago

   My daughter specifically avoided creating a Facebook account until she went to university -- however, one of her classes had meetings which were calendared and discussed on a private FB group, so she had to join in order to participate in t
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   by AndiS 13y ago

   OP here -- I am absolutely in favor of persistent pseudonyms associated with a user-generated reputation system, as discussed here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/102524008019896509925/posts/ivyA... However
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   by AndiS 13y ago

   I understand how unsafe and unsettled that must make you feel, and I hope that you are able to continue enjoying YouTube without endangering and/or outing yourself. Good luck.
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   by AndiS 13y ago

   Thanks for pointing out that security vulnerability -- blessedly, I didn't use current legal name/address info for the website (I do my best to be cagey about that stuff online -- that's similar to, but not identical to, my a