Comments on: True Names http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/05/14/true-names-2/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Brian Moore http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/05/14/true-names-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2185 Brian Moore Tue, 15 May 2007 16:39:54 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1771#comment-2185 "Surely in their more enlightened times, nobody hiding behind a pseudonym could have had any political influence. " Isn't voting anonymous? Worst. Article. Ever. “Surely in their more enlightened times, nobody hiding behind a pseudonym could have had any political influence. ”

Isn’t voting anonymous?

Worst. Article. Ever.

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]]> By: Jacob T. Levy http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/05/14/true-names-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2183 Jacob T. Levy Tue, 15 May 2007 03:29:46 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1771#comment-2183 I think Paine barely counts as having written under a pseudonym in the relevant sense, given that his pen name was the title of his most-famous publication. It wasn't even slightly a secret that he was writing Crisis; it was just a rhetorical move to have the Crisis pieces appear to be the words of unadorned "common sense." (Otherwise right on all counts, of course.) I think Paine barely counts as having written under a pseudonym in the relevant sense, given that his pen name was the title of his most-famous publication. It wasn’t even slightly a secret that he was writing Crisis; it was just a rhetorical move to have the Crisis pieces appear to be the words of unadorned “common sense.”

(Otherwise right on all counts, of course.)

]]> By: Tim http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/05/14/true-names-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2182 Tim Tue, 15 May 2007 02:38:39 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1771#comment-2182 It is unprecedented that commenters like "anticrat" can just post and vanish, Ehrich Weiss-like. But, to paraphrase the immortal line of Jacob Cohen, he gets no respect, and as such has to keep a low profile. The durability of everything digital means that in a future surveillance society like that envisioned by Eric Blair, and tragically approximated in the 20th Century by Djugashvili and Schickelgruber, there is no substitute for anonymity. (aka, in order, Houdini, Dangerfield, Orwell, Stalin, Hitler) It is unprecedented that commenters like “anticrat” can just post and vanish, Ehrich Weiss-like. But, to paraphrase the immortal line of Jacob Cohen, he gets no respect, and as such has to keep a low profile. The durability of everything digital means that in a future surveillance society like that envisioned by Eric Blair, and tragically approximated in the 20th Century by Djugashvili and Schickelgruber, there is no substitute for anonymity.

(aka, in order, Houdini, Dangerfield, Orwell, Stalin, Hitler)

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