I'm just saying some people will be idiots either way and you'd more certainly be creating more risk for women and minorities.
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Replying to @mattdpearce @jbarro
I don't think you can remove higher risk for women & minorities but I disagree pseudonymous environments protect them.
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I get the idea: "women can post pseudonymously" but in a pseudonymous platform, abusers operate more easily & at scale+
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..then we stop taking egg, no-face & name accounts seriously, so if you actually want to participate, you put pic/name+
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which gets you back to square one. I blogged about this for activists all the way back in 2011.http://technosociology.org/?p=481
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sadly I don’t think Twitter is economically incentivized to make this change.
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I don't think it's an easy question nor do I think Twitter should do that. No getting around the trade-offs.+
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But if you are a target—women, minorities, activists—pseudonymity can disproportionately empowers attackers.
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agree 100%. Just pointing out how unfortunate it is that Twitter likely won’t act to remove pseudonymity
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That would have all sorts of other negative consequences, too. Many upsides to pseudonymous platforms.+
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I just don't think protecting women or other target groups is among its benefits.
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