identity metasystem
The nym wars: how many identities are enough?
The biggest political question this year might not be national debts or the Arab Spring, but what form identity will take on the Internet in the future. As the Google+ service began demanding that people sign in with their legal names and suspending accounts believed to be in conflict with this policy, the “nym wars” broke out. Google is not alone in wanting to keep online identities strongly tied to legal identities: the National Geographic Society demands that comments on ScienceBlogs may no longer be pseudonymous, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has stated:
“Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”
But can we live a human life with just one identity?
Posted in Anders Sandberg's Posts, Business Ethics, Current Affairs, Ethics, Information Ethics, Web/Tech | Tagged anonymity, ethics, facebook, google+, identity, identity metasystem, integrity, name, nyms, nymwars, pseudonyms
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