Tag: ANONYMITY

Illinois Democratic Senator Richard Durbin wrote a letter to Mark Zuckerberg last week, asking the Facebook CEO to offer stronger online protection to political dissidents who use the social network for organizing protests. Citing the recent upheavals in Egypt and Tunisia, Durbin argued that Facebook should allow people to use fake names in order to avoid persecution from authoritarian regimes. ...

The bad experiments in paywalls have begun. We knew we'd be seeing more newspapers and magazines charging readers to access some (or all) of their websites' content, and we knew that there would be a lot of crazy attempts to implement paywalls before anyone found a sustainable model (that is, if one exists at all). Local newspaper The Sun Chronicle, based in Massachusetts, has come up with one of ...

Imagine a service completely dedicated to asking and answering questions anonymously. What sort of questions would you ask? Would you push people to reveal their darkest secrets or deepest desires? Or would you ask pointless things like "do you believe in ghosts?" Sadly, Formspring.me seems to trend toward the latter. The service, which Valleywag's Foster Kamer described as "crack-like," ...