Cory Doctorow on Nostr: A couple years after Schmidt's anti-privacy manifesto, Google launched #GooglePlus, a ...

A couple years after Schmidt's anti-privacy manifesto, Google launched #GooglePlus, a social network where everyone was required to use their "real name."

This decision - justified as a means of ensuring civility and a transparent ruse to improve ad targeting - kicked off the #NymWars:

https://epeus.blogspot.com/2011/08/google-plus-must-stop-this-identity.html

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