she hasn't really spoken about it much since stepping down but it's believed to be a big, big part of why jacinda ardern stepped down from the PM role.
Which wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it's 100% true.
Is it too simplistic of me to say anonymity should be removed from all social media?
I know, some people need it for valid reasons but the net damage is fukn enormous
that's like the 4th time this week that song has popped up, and coupled with my mother playing "poi e" on repeat for who knows what reason in the weekend, I am at my limit with nz music 🤣
I'm reminded of fb asking me to fill out a survey because they wanted to know how I felt about something and I've never been so disappointed...like "you mfers been mining my data for more than a decade and a half, and have the audacity to pause now and ask me what I think?"
I'm so old I remember when people only spewed vitriol on the internet under handles and aliases
Facebook normalized acting like a complete dink while posting under your real name
I mean go look at linkedin.
That place isn't any less toxic and it's exclusively for people looking to network with their real identities.
and that ignores the dangers to literally everybody if you don't let people organize anonymously.
To make matters worse, my Facebook account, which I thought I deleted a year ago, was recently hacked and I’m locked out. It’s a nightmare for my reputation
I've worked in that space for 20+ years, and bear in mind that there's a long list of countries where the outcome for, "being queer" is a swift lynching
Fun fact: The engineers and management at Twitter way back when got a call from the State Department during the Arab Spring to postpone some routine maintenance -- because it was the most reliable method they had access to for keeping contact with assets on the ground
The research shows that real name policies do not make social media better. Sometimes they make it more vicious. Overwhelmingly the "best" experience is had in environments where anonymity is allowed. (I will try to find citations!)
