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Time: no one knows you’re a CEO |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 9:24 am |
| Tags: laws of identity, digital identity, digital rights, anonymity |
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Lev Grossman’s The Price of Anonymity in this week’s Time Magazine is interesting partly because of his unforgettable portrait of John Mackey as Marie Antoinette. But it veers to a draconian conclusion: As far back as the 1980s, the Internet has been an electronic masked ball, a place where people can play with new identities and get off on the frisson of being somebody else. MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle has argued that this kind of identity-play even has therapeutic value. You certainly can’t ascribe a plausible financial motive to Mackey–rahodeb’s postings weren’t moving stock prices around. This was about just being naughty: picture Mackey chortling as he played the regular rube, like Marie Antoinette dressing up as a peasant and milking cows on the fake farm she built near Versailles. (Mackey was even in drag, sort of–rahodeb is an anagram of his wife’s name, Deborah.) [ Full article ] |
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