everybody on ilx complains about reddit

oh wait wasn't there some weird campaign against this public official because of her warcraft gaming?

ya ongoing for some race in maine

its def come up, but my lord when these people who grew up online start stepping into the public view

have politicians gotten their shit together re: online anonymity? it feels like it's been a good long while since someone's been scandalized out of office for something.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 1:48 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

should be pretty interesting/lol when todays facebook teens start running for office
----bob marley (lag∞n)

IMO what will happen is Mormons will be the only electable people and will run the country

yeah it was a woman running for state senate in Maine, but she publically linked her WoW char to her real name/campaign so that's not the same really

i'm actually really looking forward to that

i'm just waiting for dumps of mitt romney's racist "draw something" sketches to change the tenor of upcoming debate.

lol @ context

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/10/hulk-hogan-gawker-lawsuit-sex-tape.html

he is an orc rogue and everyone knows orc's racial abilities do not synergize well with any rouge talent spec. would not vote for.

IMO what will happen is Mormons will be the only electable people and will run the country

― iatee, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 1:55 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha yes repressive religious culture trumps urge to post cockshots, v clever mr smith

haha i had an orc rogue

he sucked tho yes

it's true that my goblin rogue was much more fun than my old abandoned orc rogue

still that class is not for me, that and pally just bore me

tbf I mostly post cockshots after I've had a lot of coffee and booze

aka 2loko

goblin sneak animation was cool. i have not played WoW in years, plz don't doxx me.

I installed it on my Mac just I could look at the expansion ;_;

i didn't even know you could be a goblin now

otm that expectations of complete internet anonymity are a thing of the past

"As you can see, Mr. PBS moderator, my opponent was a known team killer on the online game Call of Duty."

tbf I don't really think there ever was anonymity, I think few people cared to actually track stuff down

you can be anonymous if you really put yr mind to it but thats more for special ops shit like organizing revolution or releasing leaked documents, for message boards you hang out on all the time and access from yr home/work computer just assume that someone can find you if they want to

only momus will be electable

i only log into ilx via tor

for example, I think we all knew how to contact T✧✧@K✧✧.E✧✧ if we really needed to

ohhhh snap!! maybe T✧✧@K✧✧.E✧✧ really was anonymous, last of a dying breed, RIP T✧✧@K✧✧.E✧✧

anonymity takes a lot of work, definitely shouldn't be considered the default state

don't doxx me, bro

for example, I think we all knew how to contact T✧✧@K✧✧.E✧✧ if we really needed to

― 乒乓, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 2:05 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha

maybe romney's pinterest will be his achilles tumblr.

reading comments (this one possibly from screenwriter John Milius): Grow a spine. Bullies and creeps like the man that tortured this little girl get away with stuff like this because of people like you who don't have enough backbone to stand up and speak out against things. You're more concerned with the rights of the accused than the rights of the victim. You're a particular brand of a "bleeding heart" that I seriously can't stand having once been a victim myself.

http://i.imgur.com/YAOrj.jpg

nah that has to be from rorscach

dammit motherfucker you know how to spell it

Grow a spine. Bullies and creeps like the man that tortured this little girl get away with stuff like this because of people like you who don't have enough backbone to stand up and speak out against things. You're more concerned with the rights of the accused than the rights of the victim. You're a particular brand of a "bleeding heart" that I seriously can't stand having once been a victim myself.

http://s1.jrnl.ie/media/2011/04/dalai-lama-390x285.jpg

- Bob Marley

OTM

was facebook the first website that really stripped away the Internet Handle layer-of-anonymity that had been standard since AOL or whatever, and asked you to just use your real name? when i signed up for it, the justification for that being okay was it was college-only and sectioned off by school so only your classmates could look you up.

anyway it seems like that was the beginning of the end for the screen name era of the internet, now people just stick their real names in their twitter handles or whatever like it's no big deal, when 10 years ago we were all being taught that the #1 rule of using the internet was not to reveal personal info

getting people to use their real name was prob factor #1 in its success, imo

otm

i'm gonna name my kid tylerdurden08334 just to keep him safe

xp yeah definitely agree

I think there's a difference here between anonymity and a separation of spheres. I wouldn't consider myself anonymous on here to any degree, really, but this sphere is mostly separate from the rest of my life. Similarly, no old school-mates can track me down on facebook, because I use a name they don't know. And nobody who I worked with could find me easily either, unless I chose to open myself up - it's not anonymity, but it is a level of separation. And because it's not anonymity, the levels of privacy and control I've set up aren't very high - almost anyone could track me down, really. It's just a question of why they'd want to: because they're dicks or I'm enough of one to warrant it, I guess.

what really freaks me out is google's 'search by image' feature, tbh

well said, emil.y

ya i think for the most part of you never make that weird behavioral leap where you start acting like a sociopath because you assume you have anonymity prob no one is ever gonna bother to track and doxx the f out of you, obvs there are huge exceptions to this where people can be victimized for whatever reasons

what really freaks me out is google's 'search by image' feature, tbh

― 乒乓, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 2:57 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

first result i'm getting for "乒乓" is a creepshot.

https://www.google.com/search?q=乒乓&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og

I've been outed : (

i image-searched my dn. lots of good stuff including:

http://blog.lynda.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/findays-with-mordy.jpg

dayo u r creepshoting cheerleaders holding shredded lettuce, for shame

fwiw I mean finding a picture of someone and then pasting the url of that image into google image search so that it finds other images that are visually similar