Years ago when Facebook started demanding Real Names, I told everyone who didn't want to listen "Don't be dumb and use your real name on Facebook, or anywhere else if you can avoid it".
"Who cares about me?"
"It's not about who cares now, it's who cares in the future, then you could be fked"
Edwin Black's IBM and The Holocaust details how what seemed innocent enough in 1930s Europe - filling in the Census - got people sent to death camps 10 years later because one of their grandparents said "Jewish".
Obviously, having a talk cancelled is not the same as a death camp.
My example was "what if the Muslims really get some power, then all those pictures of you in the pub are going to be a liability". I thought I was being hyperbolic.
Years ago when Facebook started demanding Real Names, I told everyone who didn't want to listen "Don't be dumb and use your real name on Facebook, or anywhere else if you can avoid it".
"Who cares about me?"
"It's not about who cares now, it's who cares in the future, then you could be fked"
Edwin Black's IBM and The Holocaust details how what seemed innocent enough in 1930s Europe - filling in the Census - got people sent to death camps 10 years later because one of their grandparents said "Jewish".
Obviously, having a talk cancelled is not the same as a death camp.
My example was "what if the Muslims really get some power, then all those pictures of you in the pub are going to be a liability". I thought I was being hyperbolic.