When you publicly engage yourself in a battle against one of the most powerful IT related companies in the world, it can be a little frightening. But when you find support online, people saying that your struggle is meaningful, you start to feel a whole lot better.
In fact, there is more here than Google+ policy concerning privacy. Google and Facebook, in the middle of the war there fighting for the control of the time we spend online, have agreed on one thing: anonymity on the Internet must come to an end.
There are so many reasons to disagree on this statement that I won't be able to deal with them all on this blog but I can let you know that this topic is known as #nymwars or #plusgate on twitter. Looking for these hashtags you will find a lot of clever articles explaining why a pseudonym is a real identity. You will learn that even a few Googlers have quit their jobs over this topic! And you will be able to add your personal profile suspension story to the database created by Skud. I wish there were more content for French people though. I guess it's up to me to bring some more. So, stay tuned.
I wish you all and your digital selves a good day.
