Hard life for the troll

"As Plato said, if the mythical ring of invisibility really exist and allow the wearer to disappear, surely the owner would become a thief, because it would certainly not be discovered." This is a reflection of Julie Zhuo, product design manager at Facebook, published last November in The New York Times.

Zhuo, online discussions, which it intends to use this idea to explain how to remain anonymous in these discussions often lead to exacerbated tones, accusations over the top, vulgarity. The question, in the network is old (at the time of BBS, the boards of mail that existed before the Web was developed the so-called Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion that gets longer, the probability of a comparison on the Nazis or Hitler approaches 1, at which point the discussion is on the verge of extinction ").

The anonymity of Braveheart

Have you noticed? Fell comments, here on Done. But not the players, who instead grow. What happened? E 'was introduced the requirement for registration. To post a comment you must register. Mamma mia ... that fear! I had written a few months ago. The great merit of the Internet is to democratize communication, make it interactive dialogue horizontally and vertically.

The great defect is to allow many anonymous straparlare to open your mouth and give him breath, so we're all invisible, untraceable. (Which is not true that we are invisible. On the internet than ever are identifiable, retrievable, traceable in the bowels of the wiring that seems to hide.) In this age of communication there are few ideas that we are ready, I say to fight, but say our name.