tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post458090595838148813..comments2022-05-01T00:38:11.177-07:00Comments on NetPolitik: Nymwars: Parsing the SignalMiso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-8961032126415957232011-09-09T09:11:15.612-07:002011-09-09T09:11:15.612-07:00I think the idea of an ID service is the key there...I think the idea of an ID service is the key there. See, Google is already a quasi-monopoly on searches. I mean, if your business, your blog, or whatever, is not there, it's as if it weren't on the internet. Now, Google hasn't been able to do that in the personal field. Right now, Facebook is the best positioned service to do that. You already can sign in many websites with your FB account. There are blogs that require that if you want to leave a comment. It's not just marketing or selling stuff, see? It's about being a portal to IDs on the internet, which is itself something that some would pay a lot for.<br /><br />Now, the whole thing about G+ not being for everyone... if it's gonna have influence on searches - which Google already controls in a vast extension - I bet people will want to be there. If webpages start requiring a Google ID for the signing up process, I bet people will want to be there. If G+ succeeds as an ID service, I hope it doesn't become a monopoly, as I hope FB's monopolistic tendency can be broken, too. Otherwise people will face another danger - which, resorting to Gwyneth's reference, can be described as follows:<br /><br />"People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word." (George Orwell)<br /><br />(No, I don't think we'll come to that point tomorrow, but people having their access to some - and sometimes all - Google services denied when their profiles were suspended was already like deleting some part of their online existence)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-2908427575926400262011-09-05T17:58:34.058-07:002011-09-05T17:58:34.058-07:00Wonderful article! I particularly liked your optim...Wonderful article! I particularly liked your optimistic tone about how supporters of privacy might, after all, still "win" in the end.<br /><br />"If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide". George Orwell, "1984"? Do people still read books?Gwyneth Llewelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03394790308025005462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-29094393313222500642011-09-02T16:04:30.864-07:002011-09-02T16:04:30.864-07:00Thanks guys. It's an octopus of an issue, espe...Thanks guys. It's an octopus of an issue, especially because the groundwork for all this has been being laid for over 10 years. <br /><br />I'm hoping this blog can provide links to information that has been buried or swept out of sight in order that people can understand that this is a concerted and multi-pronged attack on what the Internet is and can be.Miso Susanowahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-17579148115533422142011-09-02T15:49:52.596-07:002011-09-02T15:49:52.596-07:00Excellent post Miso. Thanks for taking the time to...Excellent post Miso. Thanks for taking the time to tie it all together.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-42316729766972874422011-09-02T15:33:53.946-07:002011-09-02T15:33:53.946-07:00Concise, well documented and researched summary of...Concise, well documented and researched summary of the issues that are all tied up in the whole nymwars debate.<br />Thank you for setting it out so clearly.sororNishihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17385408562954387986noreply@blogger.com