• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    Why can’t people comment without their name being attached? Just spew your opinion on Reddit or Lemmy under a pseudonym.

    For instance, my name isn’t really Barney Piccolo. I could say anything I want, and my boss could never connect it to my real name.

    Well, mine could, because I’m self-employed, but my boss fully agrees with my political positions.

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      “I don’t have anything to hide” made it acceptable for social media apps to ask for a video of you holding your photo-id when adding username.

      I am not even exagerating facebook apparently wants 3 selfies from certain angles in video format and autodetects fake-sounding usernames.

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        My last name is also a word and FB won’t let me make an account. I don’t want to make one, I deleted mine a while ago, but I wanted to make one for my dog 8 years ago and found out I couldn’t because of my last name. No one should be using SM with a real name

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      Well, they’re coming for anonymity as well. The UK identification laws could be used to collect data on theoretically anonymous social media accounts, as it applies to any website that could possibly show a child something “inappropriate”, which iirc, includes not just porn but what they consider support for whatever they define as terrorism.

      GOP reps have been pushing for similar ID/age checks for a while.

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      2 days ago

      Nice try, but I know exactly where Piccolo resides and it’s next to the hyperbolic time chamber! I have Dende fire your ass!