• Google wants your real name on Youtube
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[QUOTE=Nemisis116;36911409]I changed my google name to Johnny Anon Fuck you google.[/QUOTE] I figured that out to but i couldn't think of any good name so i just put in "Dick Buttox" as a joke and it accepted it without confirming.
Why, yes, my name is ARGHLASAFJGOP KJFAOPJPGJAEGÖÄG.
I hit NO and I couldn't comment on YouTube anymore, and to fix this I had to completely delete my G+ account. What the fuck is that all about?
[QUOTE=i_speel_good;36918894]I hit NO and I couldn't comment on YouTube anymore, and to fix this I had to completely delete my G+ account. What the fuck is that all about?[/QUOTE] It's youtube, everytime they add something new in it breaks something else, however this could be something that is known to them as i could only reply to comments after I had added my "real" name.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;36919075]Hopefully this will kerb the shitposting on YouTube. Remove anonymity and people are less likely to be dicks.[/QUOTE] Except with your real name and rough estimate of location, it'll become very easy to track people down/doxx people.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;36919075]Hopefully this will kerb the shitposting on YouTube. Remove anonymity and people are less likely to be dicks.[/QUOTE] The internet is all about anonymity. That's a big part of why it exists.
Hi Youtube, my name is David Davidson.
[QUOTE=nemmises5;36919225]The internet is all about anonymity. That's a big part of why it exists.[/QUOTE] The Internet itself existing has little to do with it's inherent anonymity. It was just made as a computer network.
Thankfully it's optional atm; nonetheless it be a silly thing.
Oh fuck I changed it
This really is not going to help anything in my respects, I use a public e-mail address and a private one. And in the public one, I don't use my real name. Vagak Zalmanis is my fictional first and last name, buddies.
[QUOTE=gazzy_GUI;36915071]I figured that out to but i couldn't think of any good name so i just put in "Dick Buttox" as a joke and it accepted it without confirming.[/QUOTE] I typed in something funny and I didn't meet Googles [B]name policy[/B] Wat
Okay I'll give you my full name. It's Rusty Shackleford.
I think anonymity should be destroyed on the internet. It just leads to shit, and without it people would act civilized and responsible. The internet is not your personal tool to express your secret racist/hateful/sociopathic desires. The internet needs some major adjustments, and soon.
My youtube name is already my real name
[QUOTE=TonyP;36923721]I think anonymity should be destroyed on the internet. It just leads to shit, and without it people would act civilized and responsible. The internet is not your personal tool to express your secret racist/hateful/sociopathic desires. The internet needs some major adjustments, and soon. I personally want something like SOPA to pass, so websites like, for example, ones that say jews did 9/11 or ones claiming evolution is a conspiracy, and 9gag, can simply be blocked and deleted.[/QUOTE] Wow, I think you just single handedly made the most idiotic post I've ever seen on a forum. Actually, scratch that. You've just made the single most idiotic post that I've ever seen ever. For one you seem to be under the false impression that anonymity just results in negative consequences. "It just leads to shit" as you put it is completely wrong. Plenty of small movements would simply be unable to make their ground without internet anonymity. Trying to organize some kind of protest in a heavily locked down country? They've got your name? Well then you're fucked. Anonymity is a good thing and in some cases it can protect people. There's a reason witnesses are usually blurred out when they talk about a criminal on tv. There is literally no proof to support your idiotic assumption that people would act more civilized and responsible with anonymity gone. For one, how do you confirm that Seymore Butts isn't a real person? People can easily make aliases which completely throw out the effectiveness of anonymity. Of course systems could be put in place to force you to use your real name with some kind of real life verification, but that's not the point. The point being: there have been several cases where people have committed suicide due to the comments of their [B]peers[/B] on sites such as Myspace and Facebook. These are sites where their names are and practically everything about them, 0 anonymity. Guess what. People still act like dicks without anonymity. Get back to me when you kill yourself after some random person on youtube calls you a penis head. People are dicks and removing the anonymity won't change that. The internet is fine as it is and over regulating it would do nothing but make things worse. I'm not even going to bother on you wanting SOPA to pass, that's just hilarious. Now, about the end of your post. That has got to be the most stupid thing I've ever read. No matter how much you don't like it, the conspiracy theorists deserve to be able to voice their opinions. I don't see the need to hate on 9gag either here. Sure, I don't like it, but you're just naming sites you don't like and saying "get rid of them" which is incredibly biased. If people pay for server hosting and what to voice their opinions or share [I]funny[/I] pictures with each other then there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. The only time there'd be a problem is if they're doing something highly illegal like posting CP. Removing people's rights because you don't agree with them is stupid. Let the conspiracy theorists and the likes of 9gag have their site. It's not hurting you in any way. Do you have to go to those sites? No, you don't. Sorry, but silencing the people and removing their anonymity does not sound good at all to me.
[QUOTE=AnalAnnihilator;36924109] The conspiracy theorists deserve to be able to voice their opinions.[/QUOTE] No they don't. They deserve to be forced to receive psychiatric care for their paranoid delusions, which are a mental health problem and if not treated, can lead to them become a danger to others. [QUOTE=AnalAnnihilator;36924109] Removing people's rights because you don't agree with them is stupid.[/QUOTE] The internet is [I]not[/I] a right, it's a luxury, and free speech doesn't apply online either. Website owners can censor and ban anybody they want for any reason online. [QUOTE=AnalAnnihilator;36924109]Let the conspiracy theorists have their site. It's not hurting you in any way. Do you have to go to those sites? No, you don't.[/QUOTE] No, I wont let them have their site. Yes it is hurting me. Sites like those spread lies, fear, hatred, and incite distrust of actual doctors or scientists I can damn well complain and wish death upon their sites. I'd gladly destroy any server hosting anti-vaccination, anti-science, pro-anorexia, anti-real medicine, or homophobic websites any day, and I would if I could. If you don't like that, then good for you. [editline]25th July 2012[/editline] And obviously the 9gag reference was a joke. Sorry I didn't make it clear enough for you.
Ha, wow I'd probably catch a lot of shit for my name. Gonna decline, though.
Ben Dover.
[QUOTE=The golden;36924306]If there is anyone who needs psychiatric care, it's you.[/QUOTE] Hahaha, how so? I'm not the one rocking back and forth in a corner with a tinfoil hat on. What, you think I'm mental because I want stupid, ignorant, harmful, disgusting, and dangerous websites to be removed? I think the internet would be much better if websites like: - godhatesfags.com - websites that convince naive and gullible people to not give their children vaccines, that gays are evil, or that science shouldn't be trusted - pro anorexia websites - forums to discuss how to sexually assault others without being caught - pro-racism websites were gone.
[QUOTE=The golden;36924320]No, you're just the one who is demanding that people who think differently be forced into mental facilities against their will.[/QUOTE] Having paranoid delusions is not the same as "thinking differently", it's a mental disorder that can lead to the person becoming a danger to themselves or others if left unchecked. What you're insinuating: I want people who have different beliefs to be brainwashed in facilities. What I actually want: people with paranoid delusions should receive counseling and care to become healthy again so they do not degrade and pose a danger to themselves or others around them.
Like I said, freedom of speech doesn't exist or apply to the internet. Website owners can and do censor and ban anybody they want for any reason online. Unlike in real, public areas, the internet has no obligation to not censor what you say. When you go on yahoo, and post something offensive in a news article, it probably will be removed. If you make a thread here saying blacks are subhuman and lesser than whites, you'll be banned, and sometimes your post gets snipped. I think it should go one step further and hold websites themselves responsible for what they publish online. If a website is publishing something like 'blacks are subhuman and lesser than whites' they should be asked to either edit their site or remove it.
I like how you completely ignored all of my points on anonymity and instead went on some crazy rant on how things which more or less aren't tailored to your infallible views should be removed from the internet which by the way wouldn't be abused at all by government entities.
I only responded to that which I disagreed with.
[QUOTE=TonyP;36924483]I only responded to that which I disagreed with.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=TonyP;36923721]I think anonymity should be destroyed on the internet. It just leads to shit, and without it people would act civilized and responsible. The internet is not your personal tool to express your secret racist/hateful/sociopathic desires. The internet needs some major adjustments, and soon.[/QUOTE] Uh, so you managed to do a 180 on the whole anonymity thing in just one post?
No, anything I didn't quote was basically "people still be nasty when they can't be anonymous and you have no proof that they would be less likely to be nasty" Plus the "assembling protests" thing, which I agree with. As for this [quote]Get back to me when you kill yourself after some random person on youtube calls you a penis head.[/quote] Who says I haven't tried, or wanted to try, in the past? And this too [quote]I'm not even going to bother on you wanting SOPA to pass, that's just hilarious. [/quote] I never said I wanted SOPA to pass, I said I wanted something like SOPA to pass where harmful websites would be held responsible and be issued warnings for things similar to what I said (propaganda, hate speech, etc). If individual posts on a forum can be deleted there is no reason why blogs, forums, or other websites where the website itself endorses such things can't as well.
good thing my g+ name for that google account is butte butre
I found the fix on how to get replying to work. Some of you may not want to do this though.... You have to delete your G+ content (Not your google account) [quote=Google Forum User][url]https://www.google.com/settings/[/url] If you scroll down the page, you will see "Delete Profile and Google+ Features", then you Select that link. Log out of YouTube (it might not hurt to empty cache & delete cookies), log back in, and you should be good to go![/quote] Next problem is, you can't see who replied to you now. [img]http://gyazo.com/89b6fe02362b53c53f219f8f78f76ea6.png?1343198842[/img]
[QUOTE=TonyP;36924515]If individual posts on a forum can be deleted there is no reason why blogs, forums, or other websites where the website itself endorses such things can't as well.[/QUOTE] Uh, yes there is. Posts being deleted from forums, blogs, etc are done so either by moderators or admins of said website. The people deleting the content are the people who pay out of their pocket to run the server which hosts the site. In order to delete blogs, forums, and so on you would have to put that power in the hands of another entity besides that of the server owner. Most likely a government entity. Allowing the government to censor the internet is just a horrible idea and can be incredibly dangerous if abused by said government. There's really no point in forcing conspiracy theorists to receive psychiatric care anyways. From your post: [quote]No they don't. They deserve to be forced to receive psychiatric care for their paranoid delusions, which are a mental health problem and if not treated, can lead to them become a danger to others.[/quote] You replied to my statement that conspiracy theorists deserved to be able to voice your opinions. Your response was that they should not be able to voice their opinions. Really, silencing them and removing their freedom of speech? Also an idiotic assumption that all of them have mental health problems. Of course some conspiracy theorists have mental problems, but some do not, some are ill informed, and so on. You didn't even bother to back up your with anonymity gone people would act civilized idea. You just switched over to your crazy what I would categorize as "censor things that go against my beliefs nonsense." [quote]I'd gladly destroy any server hosting anti-vaccination, anti-science, pro-anorexia, anti-real medicine, or homophobic websites any day, and I would if I could. [/quote] Destroying their property because their views differ from yours? Sure, some of the things posted by the people might be detrimental to society, but that doesn't give you free reign to demolish their servers. That's just barbaric. Even if you do feel strongly about something. [quote]When you go on yahoo, and post something offensive in a news article, it probably will be removed. If you make a thread here saying blacks are subhuman and lesser than whites, you'll be banned, and sometimes your post gets snipped. I think it should go one step further and hold websites themselves responsible for what they publish online. If a website is publishing something like 'blacks are subhuman and lesser than whites' they should be asked to either edit their site or remove it[/quote] Again, there is a major difference between posting on someones site and owning a site. When posting on a forum you're posting on something owned by the server owner. If he deems that your post is offensive or whatever else he can remove it because it is his property and he can remove it. Big difference between that and removing entire sites themselves by some other entity. [quote]I never said I wanted SOPA to pass, I said I wanted something like SOPA to pass where harmful websites would be held responsible and be issued warnings for things similar to what I said (propaganda, hate speech, etc). If individual posts on a forum can be deleted there is no reason why blogs, forums, or other websites where the website itself endorses such things can't as well.[/quote] And back to this again. Sorry that the internet doesn't fit your little cookie cutter ideology. Part of the beauty of the internet is that people are free to publish what they want. Holding sites responsible for differing views which can sometimes be valid in the rare case of a conspiracy theory being partially correct is just wrong. Censoring the internet and psych evaluating people over petty things like this isn't going to help anyone. It's a bit unsettling how happy you are to rid the internet of these things. However, that's not even the point of the article. The article was about Youtube allowing you to use your real name on youtube which is fine as long as it is not forced in my opinion. Your whole thing about ridding the net of anonymity is just silly and would be more of a detriment than an aid.
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