Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name
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Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name
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#2I was going to say that I can't believe Salman Rushdie stooped so low as to mail a copy of his passport to some website.
But it's harder to believe that he had a facebook account in the first place.
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#3FTA: Indeed, under the terms of the Snoopers Charter, it wouldn’t just be Facebook who could access this kind of information: the authorities could potentially set up a filter to gather data on people who don’t confirm the names of their friends
Yes, and I could potentially sprout wings from my ass and become a travel carrier. The rest of this article is nothing more than a ton of thinly veiled fallacies, slippery slope and appeal to emotion the least of the two.
Is the feature dodgy? Perhaps.
Did you agree to the rules of the party before joining? Yup. One of which is: "Use your real name".
Should you be surprised if you get called out on it? Nope.
You're more than welcome to protest unfair policies (whether saying you'll put truthful info on a form is "unfair" is left as an exercise to the reader), but much like civil disobedience, you have no right to complain once you are found to be breaking the law/policy and are punished for it.
This is a website. Let's try to keep perspective here.
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#4If the responses are actually anonymous (as they claim, but I don't believe it's actually anonymous in their database), it would be easy to generate enough false positives to spoil the system.
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#5If nothing else this might help put the kibosh on the intensely annoying way Facebook users tend to use cutesy fake names so that you don't know who the hell they are when they comment on your posts.
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#6FTA: Indeed, under the terms of the Snoopers Charter, it wouldn’t just be Facebook who could access this kind of information: the authorities could potentially set up a filter to gather data on people who don’t confirm the names of their friends Yes, and I could potentially sprout wings from my ass and become a travel carrier. The rest of this article is nothing more than a ton of thinly veiled fallacies, slippery sl…
> Did you agree to the rules of the party before joining? Yup. One of which is: "Use your real name".
I signed up for Facebook in September 2004. I most certainly did not agree to that rule, because as far as I can recall, no such rule existed at the time. You may make the argument that my continued use of their service implies assent to any subsequent modifications to their terms of service, but that's an issue that would need to be litigated.
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#7FTA: Indeed, under the terms of the Snoopers Charter, it wouldn’t just be Facebook who could access this kind of information: the authorities could potentially set up a filter to gather data on people who don’t confirm the names of their friends Yes, and I could potentially sprout wings from my ass and become a travel carrier. The rest of this article is nothing more than a ton of thinly veiled fallacies, slippery sl…
What's a "real" name? The one on record with the government? What if no on calls me by that name?
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#8FTA: Indeed, under the terms of the Snoopers Charter, it wouldn’t just be Facebook who could access this kind of information: the authorities could potentially set up a filter to gather data on people who don’t confirm the names of their friends Yes, and I could potentially sprout wings from my ass and become a travel carrier. The rest of this article is nothing more than a ton of thinly veiled fallacies, slippery sl…
Agree with your larger point, but your tone is a bit argumentative.
Also, civil disobedience doesn't mean what you think it means:
much like civil disobedience, you have no right to complain once
you are found to be breaking the law/policy and are punished for it
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#9FTA: Indeed, under the terms of the Snoopers Charter, it wouldn’t just be Facebook who could access this kind of information: the authorities could potentially set up a filter to gather data on people who don’t confirm the names of their friends Yes, and I could potentially sprout wings from my ass and become a travel carrier. The rest of this article is nothing more than a ton of thinly veiled fallacies, slippery sl…
This is not a website. This is a massive web of communications, past and present. This is not a wire tap without a permit, this is a permanent archive of every sniffle. Guys with warrants and/or guns get what they want, and Facebook has what they want.
Does Mark Zuckerburg strike you as the kind of fella who will go to prison to fight for your privacy?
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#10I was going to say that I can't believe Salman Rushdie stooped so low as to mail a copy of his passport to some website. But it's harder to believe that he had a facebook account in the first place.
why? the man loves attention, haven't you seen his twitter account: http://twitter.com/SalmanRushdie