Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World
by Bruce Schneier · 3 Sep 2018 · 448pp · 117,325 words
), http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~tdumitra/papers/CCS-2017.pdf. 51Facebook has a “real name” policy: Amanda Holpuch (15 Dec 2015), “Facebook adjusts controversial ‘real name’ policy in wake of criticism,” Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/15/facebook-change-controversial-real-name-policy. 51Google requires a phone number: Eric Griffith (3 Dec 2017), “How to
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism
by Wendy Liu · 22 Mar 2020 · 223pp · 71,414 words
/google-reverses-real-names-policy-apologizes/. 6 Fortune has listed Google as the #1 best company to work for in the
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil · 5 Sep 2016 · 252pp · 72,473 words
Facebook, too. The social network’s rigorous policy to tie users to their real names severely limits the research outsiders can carry out there. The real-name policy is admirable in many ways, not least because it pushes users to be accountable for the messages they post. But Facebook also must be accountable
Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
by Rebecca MacKinnon · 31 Jan 2012 · 390pp · 96,624 words
as well as the official legally binding Terms of Service page were translated into Arabic, as of mid-2011 those key documents explaining Facebook’s real-name policy and other “rules” whose violation could trigger account deactivation and suspension had yet to be translated into the languages of a number of other vulnerable
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English under the name Michael Anti—not actually his real Chinese name—happily joined Google Plus after having been kicked off Facebook for violating its real-name policy in late 2010. Many others around the world who have professional reputations associated with long-standing pseudonyms instead of their real names signed up for
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from around the world weighed in, contributing statements and testimonials. Though few mainstream news organizations had written about the human rights implications of Facebook’s real-name policy, the torrent of commentary flowing at the same time from many influential technologists—coming right on the heels of Google Plus’s launch, which was
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effectiveness for activists in Egypt inconsistency of policy enforcement lobby to update ECPA politicians and privacy issues protection from hate and harassment “Quit Facebook Day,” real-name policy The Facebook Effect (Kirkpatrick) Facebook Zero Fair Labor Association (FLA) Falun Gong FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) F&C Asset Management FCC (Federal Communications Commission
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
by Bruce Schneier · 2 Mar 2015 · 598pp · 134,339 words
are allowed on Facebook?” https://www.facebook.com/help/112146705538576. Reed Albergotti (2 Oct 2014), “Facebook changes real-name policy after uproar from drag queens,” Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/articles/facebook-changes-real-name-policy-after-uproar-from-drag-queens-1412223040. It quickly became clear: People’s willingness to pay has changed somewhat
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
by Jacob Silverman · 17 Mar 2015 · 527pp · 147,690 words
the service, along with its habit of retaining information that users believed they had deleted, and one gets the sense that the promulgation of a real-names policy is but another element to gather as much information as possible, to make us transparent first and foremost to Facebook and its advertising platform. A
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
by Zeynep Tufekci · 14 May 2017 · 444pp · 130,646 words
on that page roused people to action that turned into an uprising. However, that course of events was almost tripped up because of Facebook’s “real-name” policy. One of the most consequential decisions that social media platforms make for their users is whether people can use pseudonyms—and easily create multiple accounts
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contrast between his treatment and that of Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg’s puppy, named Beast, which is allowed its own page. Because of Facebook’s real-name policy, to this day, Anti does not have a Facebook page. Even in developed nations where people are not necessarily hiding from the authorities, Facebook’s
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“Santa Claus” or “Mickey Mouse” and continue to have a perfectly normal Facebook experience. Why, then, did Wael Ghonim run into such trouble? Facebook’s real-name policy, like most policies of almost all social media platforms, is implemented through “community policing”—a method with significantly different impacts depending on the community involved
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photo, may work for Western activists, but activists or LGBTQ people in developing countries rarely have these options. Ironically, implementing these slight modifications to the real-name policy may have taken some of the heat off Facebook because LGBTQ communities in Western nations, those in the best position to make noise about their
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users, 135 organizational coordination and communication via, 51 platform expansion, 132, 133–34, 135–38 reaction buttons, 161–62, 294n37 (see also “Like” button subentry) “real-name” policy of, 139–46, 171, 182–83 report and takedown policing model for, 143–45, 146, 153 reputation development on, 171 social-technological interactions via, 118
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lack of, 71, 75, 77–82, 215, 270 LGBT community: “Amina” hoax falsely identifying with, 183–85 Gezi Park protest role of, 105–7, 108 “real-name” policy issues for, 142, 144, 145 libraries: culture of protest supporting, 87–88, 90–91 organizational coordination of, 50, 52 logistics coordination, 49–51, 53–66
Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media
by Tarleton Gillespie · 25 Jun 2018 · 390pp · 109,519 words
the platform. And because Facebook and Google+ provide secure login mechanisms for other websites, some of the platforms using these systems have a kind of real-name policy by proxy—sometimes by design, as when Tinder requires that users link their dating profiles to their Facebook accounts. Facebook and LinkedIn’s desire to
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content and engage in harassing behaviors, without fear of social or legal consequence or the social inhibition of being known.30 Facebook regularly justifies its real-name policy in these terms, as an essential part of its efforts to protect users from harassment, trolling, racism, and misogyny—though in fact these problems plague
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Facebook anyway, even with a real-name policy in place.31 Some critics have suggested that Facebook in fact needs to require real names for economic reasons: the massive troves of user data
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collects are valuable precisely because they map to real people.32 Facebook has faced a series of public challenges for its dogged commitment to its real-name policy. Some feel the requirement imposes an undue burden on those who have reason to shield their identity: victims of past domestic abuse or stalking, those
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variety of personal, social, and political reasons. This makes them similar in aim and tactics to the performers and drag queens thwarted by Facebook’s real-name policy, to protesters seeking attention and legitimacy on Twitter, to artists turning to social media to spread their political message. And it also makes them similar
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, “The Politics of ‘Real Names.’” 32Lil Miss Hot Mess, “One Year Later, Facebook Still Hasn’t Fixed Its Controversial ‘Real Names’ Policy,” Daily Dot, October 6, 2015, http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/facebook-real-name-policy/. 33Lizze Plaugic, “The Enduring Strangeness of Twitter Parody Accounts,” Verge, March 14, 2016, https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/14
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. 66Taylor Hatmaker, “RealNamePolice and the Real Story behind Facebook’s Name Policy Fumble,” Daily Dot, October 3, 2014, http://www.dailydot.com/technology/realnamepolice-facebook-real-names-policy/. 67https://twitter.com/RealNamesBack/status/514182271687852032 (account since suspended). 68https://twitter.com/RealNamesBack/status/514167671487602689 (account since suspended). 69This suggests that Facebook probably received more
The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit
by Marina Krakovsky · 14 Sep 2015 · 270pp · 79,180 words
accountability and trust that ultimately made it a more attractive gathering place. Advocates of privacy and Internet freedom have at times balked at Facebook’s real-names policy, but most people were “willing to trade their privacy for the privileges of joining a network based on trust,” as the journalist Julia Angwin has
Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution
by Pieter Hintjens · 11 Mar 2013 · 349pp · 114,038 words
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
by Joanne McNeil · 25 Feb 2020 · 239pp · 80,319 words
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
by Sara Wachter-Boettcher · 9 Oct 2017 · 223pp · 60,909 words
This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers
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Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World
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