I remember about 10 years ago or so, there was talk about pushing a bill or something regarding The Right To Be Forgotten. So that old posts or comments online could not be used against a person.
I don't know how old these posts were for this young man, but I know that if my post history was tied to my name and it was searchable, I would never be employed, housed, or allowed to have a bank account.
I also learned by 1998, to never use my real name on any kind of forums or social media accounts, for this reason.
Same. I've purposefully stayed anonymous online for a long time.
I've actually got to thank Aaron Swartz for that enlightenment, dude possibly saved my life by deleting my reddit account for being doxing. Told me I don't want the people taking over knowing that kind of information.
I was a teenager, working as a writer at the time and trying to get into the industry. I was chatting on reddit and got told by u/maxwellhouse (Ghislane Maxwell) that I should come to some of the events so that I can network with editors, publishers, etc.
When the Obama admin orchestrated Aaron's death I swore I wouldn't stop in any way I can until Obama hangs.
It's beginning to look like that could happen sooner than later.
I'm ADHD/dyslexic and have never had a social drive in person, so I wasn't going anywhere. Same thing causes me to be hyper suspicious of compliments, etc. so even though I was just a kid I had a complete bullshit filter and didn't buy any praise especially when it came to my writing.
I'll also add this was a couple years after I got into and out of "hacking" and torched my computer when I found what I found. Prince Andrew's area is rotten top to bottom, hence my drive to GTFO of there and I did. I didn't know what to do, it wasn't anything illegal I found just I knew what it was for. I wasn't stupid.
Anyway. U/maxwellhouse was supportive, helpful, etc. and very friendly. There was more users that they were friends with that I got into conversations with.
I'd talked with them for a few months when the suggestions to go to writing events, etc. all started. Nothing overly pushy. It went on for a bit, there was some close to home, but I didn't have an interest nor the time to go to a meet up.
That's about the time the sale went through and was switching hands. Aaron nuked a swathe of the user base who had dox-able info.
I was on the YC hacker news site too, which I ended up seeing Aaron comment on and I was jokingly like "hey wtf dude, you deleted my reddit account!?" and I ended up chatting on and off with the guy until they jailed him.
He said "you really don't want the new people running it knowing anything personally identifiable about you". I didn't use the site again until Q came and we went to war.
I am ADHD also and I am the same with compliments. I think we get so used to being in trouble as kids we are immediately suspicious when we aren’t in the let me explain hot seat and your absolutely right about seeing through Bullshit. The little things most people can ignore can be glaringly obvious to use. Yay filterless brain for being an asset and not just something you have to wrestle into submission. I knew it would be an interesting story and you absolutely did not disappoint Thank you.
I remember about 10 years ago or so, there was talk about pushing a bill or something regarding The Right To Be Forgotten. So that old posts or comments online could not be used against a person.
I don't know how old these posts were for this young man, but I know that if my post history was tied to my name and it was searchable, I would never be employed, housed, or allowed to have a bank account.
I also learned by 1998, to never use my real name on any kind of forums or social media accounts, for this reason.
Same. I've purposefully stayed anonymous online for a long time.
I've actually got to thank Aaron Swartz for that enlightenment, dude possibly saved my life by deleting my reddit account for being doxing. Told me I don't want the people taking over knowing that kind of information.
I was a teenager, working as a writer at the time and trying to get into the industry. I was chatting on reddit and got told by u/maxwellhouse (Ghislane Maxwell) that I should come to some of the events so that I can network with editors, publishers, etc.
When the Obama admin orchestrated Aaron's death I swore I wouldn't stop in any way I can until Obama hangs.
It's beginning to look like that could happen sooner than later.
I want more. You got stories.
Not really any stories.
I'm ADHD/dyslexic and have never had a social drive in person, so I wasn't going anywhere. Same thing causes me to be hyper suspicious of compliments, etc. so even though I was just a kid I had a complete bullshit filter and didn't buy any praise especially when it came to my writing.
I'll also add this was a couple years after I got into and out of "hacking" and torched my computer when I found what I found. Prince Andrew's area is rotten top to bottom, hence my drive to GTFO of there and I did. I didn't know what to do, it wasn't anything illegal I found just I knew what it was for. I wasn't stupid.
Anyway. U/maxwellhouse was supportive, helpful, etc. and very friendly. There was more users that they were friends with that I got into conversations with.
I'd talked with them for a few months when the suggestions to go to writing events, etc. all started. Nothing overly pushy. It went on for a bit, there was some close to home, but I didn't have an interest nor the time to go to a meet up.
That's about the time the sale went through and was switching hands. Aaron nuked a swathe of the user base who had dox-able info.
I was on the YC hacker news site too, which I ended up seeing Aaron comment on and I was jokingly like "hey wtf dude, you deleted my reddit account!?" and I ended up chatting on and off with the guy until they jailed him.
He said "you really don't want the new people running it knowing anything personally identifiable about you". I didn't use the site again until Q came and we went to war.
I am ADHD also and I am the same with compliments. I think we get so used to being in trouble as kids we are immediately suspicious when we aren’t in the let me explain hot seat and your absolutely right about seeing through Bullshit. The little things most people can ignore can be glaringly obvious to use. Yay filterless brain for being an asset and not just something you have to wrestle into submission. I knew it would be an interesting story and you absolutely did not disappoint Thank you.
Found this relevant to Aaron's comment: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1888290402186215524