Will 4chan Be A Game Changer in Online Privacy Debate?
It's not too surprising that 4chan founder Christopher Poole and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg don't see see eye to eye on the subject of online identity. But now that Poole has called Zuckerberg "totally wrong" on the issue, and set forth his own vision for Web-based community, could 4chan be a game changer in the online privacy debate?
It’s not too surprising that 4chan founder Christopher Poole and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg don’t see see eye to eye on the subject of online identity. But now that Poole has called Zuckerberg “totally wrong” on the issue, and set forth his own vision for Web-based community, could 4chan be a game changer in the online privacy debate?
Poole, known by his 4chan username “moot,” argued in a presentation at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, over the weekend that anonymity allows users to reveal themselves in a “completely unvarnished, unfiltered, raw way.”
He went on to declare that Zuckerberg was “totally wrong” about online identity
And, with that, the debate over online privacy emerged, and the voices behind it are some of the strongest, and most influential, in social networking.
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