Anonymous gets banned from Google+, creates his own social network • Hacker News Board

BasDirks wrote: post #12

" The sheep era is over. The interwebz are no longer your prison. " Isn't the problem with being a sheep that you're anonymous? I don't get it, to me Anonymous exemplifies the metaphorical herd perfectly.

It does seem perfectly tribal. Down with the oppressors, join this group with me to protect yourself against the oppressors. Then the groups fight incessantly until one of them eclipses the others and invents nationalism. On the other hand, Anonymous is supposedly structured so that individuals can opt in or out of campaigns without worrying that their efforts will end up supporting actions they disagree with. With most organizations, you have to try to predict whether they will put your time and money to good use before you actually commit your support, and then your efforts are controlled by the leadership until you retract your support.

That would make Anonymous an organization that is uniquely driven by the individual choices of its members, which is a very attractive idea. That's the potential, anyway.

Re: Anonymous gets banned from Google+, creates his own social network

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Post by nostromo » Sat, Jul 16, 2011, 8:23 PM UTC

> Didn’t take long to get banned from Google+ our Gmail is also gone...

This is a major concern for me and Google+. Who knows what violates their community standards -- and loosing my gmail (and google docs, and analytics and...) because of Google+ is unfathomable.

Google+ really needs to separate out its services so that running afoul of the Google+ "community standards" dosn't lead to the death of all your Google services.

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Post by paulnelligan » Sat, Jul 16, 2011, 8:32 PM UTC

Stevenup7002 wrote: post #11

A social network lead by hacktivists? I'm sure the general public will come flocking...

I don't think it's for the general public, but there are enough 'subversive individuals' out there to make this work for them, I'm personally extremely fed up of the increasing lack of anonymity on the services that I use ...