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    Facebook Updates Are Just as Awkward for Superheroes

    President Obama Welcomes the Cyber State

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    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    10/05/09

    In reply to Facebook Updates Are Just as Awkward for Superheroes
    YES!
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    10/05/09

    In reply to Facebook Updates Are Just as Awkward for Superheroes
    I fanned Superman on Facebook and he suggested we all become fans of Jesus Christ. Really.
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    Image of TickMan TickMan
    10/05/09

    @redqueenmeg: Really? I thought Superman was more into Islam seeing how he liked his cousin in one universe.
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    10/05/09

    @TickMan: Really. Check this out: [www.facebook.com] Filter it to "Just Superman" and look a few entries down in July.
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    10/05/09

    In reply to Facebook Updates Are Just as Awkward for Superheroes
    Agreed. The J. Jonah Jameson one was the best. The look of maniacal glee on his face was the clincher.
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    Image of geiko geiko
    10/05/09

    In reply to Facebook Updates Are Just as Awkward for Superheroes
    geiko is loving this!
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    Image of GollyGeeGosh GollyGeeGosh
    10/05/09

    In reply to Facebook Updates Are Just as Awkward for Superheroes
    Those are all fantastic, but the JJJ one was my favorite.
    WILL THE WONDERS OF THE INTERNET NEVER CEASE?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/05/09

    In reply to Facebook Updates Are Just as Awkward for Superheroes
    The Superman one was great...all his relatives coming out of the woodwork to screw up his day.
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    10/05/09

    In reply to Facebook Updates Are Just as Awkward for Superheroes
    I think the Doom account is a fake.

    Everyone knows the real Doctor Doom only writes his name in caps locks, bold, italicized, and underlined.
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment Edited by omgwtflolbbqbye at 10/05/09 4:34 PM omgwtflolbbqbye was starred omgwtflolbbqbye was unstarred
    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    10/05/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: DOOM finds this adequate.
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    Edited by Belabras ate my dingo! at 10/05/09 10:34 PM Belabras ate my dingo! was starred Belabras ate my dingo! was unstarred
    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    10/06/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: Yeah, it's just that facebook doesn't admit them.
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    Image of MS-18E Shadoblak MS-18E Shadoblak
    10/05/09

    In reply to Facebook Updates Are Just as Awkward for Superheroes
    I posted this to my facebook page earlier....Are you stalking me io9!?
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment MS-18E Shadoblak was starred MS-18E Shadoblak was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/05/09

    @MS-18E Shadoblak: ...no.
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    Image of MS-18E Shadoblak MS-18E Shadoblak
    10/05/09

    @Grey_Area: A likely story...
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/05/09

    @MS-18E Shadoblak: THIS IS WHY NO ONE LIKES
    YOU MS-18E!!!
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    Edited by Grey_Area at 10/05/09 5:20 PM Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
    Image of Log1c Log1c
    10/05/09

    @Grey_Area: Log1c likes this.
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    Image of Illogic Illogic
    10/06/09

    @Log1c: Log1cs bastards cousin Illogic like it too.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    05/29/09

    In reply to President Obama Welcomes the Cyber State
    Also, I know it's just words -- of course, the whole policy review is just words -- but isn't the bit about addressing "privacy and civil liberties interests" a hopeful sign here?
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/29/09

    @Moff: I think it is a hopeful sign, but I worry that it will turn into nothing more than that. It's easy to claim that a Facebook-like system addresses privacy interests because it has privacy settings. As several people in comments have already noted, however, privacy settings don't really solve the anonymity problem.


    Here's an example: What if you work as a school teacher, and that is your identity on Facebook, but you also post in a forum for gays and lesbians? If parents discovered you were an evil gay, you might lose your job. But you are allowed only one identity online. It's either post as your Facebook self in the gay forums, or nothing. So you sacrifice your ability to speak to other gay people because you need that job.

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    Image of Moff Moff
    05/29/09

    In reply to President Obama Welcomes the Cyber State
    Is there some middle ground, though? One of the ideas I've been tossing around in my head is a local news site that you'd have to have a single, ID-verified account to use. If you wanted to, say, reply to a classified ad, you'd have to be signed in to your account, which would be traceable back to you, a confirmed real person, identifiable by the site admins, which would seriously cut back on spam.


    And you'd use the same account for, say, commenting, but you'd have the option to comment anonymously/under a different handle. Again, the site admins could ID you if necessary, but one hopes that responsible terms of service being observed by all parties could mitigate abuse.


    I think people are interested in ways to tie online identities to real-life identities for some very good reasons, although I certainly don't think such a thing should be government-mandated. But maybe the best solution is for responsible companies to find ways to alleviate the problems before too many folks start clamoring for the government to step in?

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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    05/29/09

    In reply to President Obama Welcomes the Cyber State
    Hmm, government might be interested in e-authentication, but I think the Facebook connection is a bit of a leap of logic.


    Maybe they would create a separate website that could work in conjunction with other sites like Facebook? So you could log into MySocialSecurity.com or whatever, then log onto Facebook through that site and "stamp" your Facebook profile to prove you are who you say you are. And you could similarly "stamp" your email accounts as well.


    Shit would hit the fan if government went so far as to *require* that all email accounts be verified or stamped.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/29/09

    @Steverino Begins: Yeah I imagine it would be a site *like* Facebook, not Facebook itself. Though the government might pay Facebook to develop it based on Facebook software.
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    05/29/09

    In reply to President Obama Welcomes the Cyber State
    After a long and thoughtful deliberation my response to you madam....


    FUCK THAT!!!


    Good day to you madam.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/29/09

    @alphanumeric1971: Hey what do you care? You're Canadian.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/29/09

    @Annalee Newitz: He's just jealous because he doesn't get a cool barcode tattoo like we do.
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    Image of viloki9 viloki9
    05/29/09

    In reply to President Obama Welcomes the Cyber State
    Wow, if any of you actually believe this is even implementable, that means you don't understand how the internet works. The government has been making proposals like this for years, but their proposals fall through because you CAN'T do it. Not to mention, America doesn't OWN the internet, in order for this new system to even work at all, every country in the world would have to agree to it. The only other option would be create a U.S. internal intranet separate from the internet, but since the gov. would monitor the intranet, who the hell would even use it?
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/29/09

    @viloki9: US businesses can require people to use an authenticated ID, however. This has nothing to do with "the internet," it has to do with the ways that people verify their identites to web applications (or other applications). You can do it over any old set of tubes.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/29/09

    In reply to President Obama Welcomes the Cyber State
    Now hold on there everybody, how do we know this was written by the real Annalee Newitz?
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    Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/29/09

    @Grey_Area: It was just somebody who logged in using my name. Or wait, maybe I am somebody who just logged in using her name!
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    Annalee Newitz was starred Annalee Newitz was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/29/09

    @Annalee Newitz: O NOES, WHO THE HELL AM I?!

    [checks label on boxers]

    Ah, 'sokay, I am someone called Hane.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/29/09

    @Grey_Area: I don't have a Facebook account! So I'm nobody!


    [checks briefs]

    Oh, I'm Victoria, and my identity is Secret. Till now.

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    Image of Moff Moff
    05/29/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Hey, that's what it says on mine too!
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/29/09

    @Moff: We can't be the same person! (ya perv)
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Adam Simon Adam Simon
    05/29/09

    In reply to President Obama Welcomes the Cyber State
    Yes, the government could use Facebook, but antitrust regulations would likely require that any number of other companies be allowed to compete as identity authentication services. (If they didn't, this entire system would be delayed a decade while it worked its way up the courts.) Other social networks like Twitter would be obvious choices, but my guess is that the leader in the field would wind up being a startup that specializes in *only* managing and verifying your identity, for the precise reasons you've outlined above.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/29/09

    @Adam Simon: Totally agree about Facebook - I just used that as an example.
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