
Amino Apps Makes the Case for Anonymity Online
Amino Apps Makes the Case for Anonymity Online
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 13, 20188m 20s
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Show Notes
Over the last several years, a number of social media and dating platforms have begun emphasizing users’ real names. Facebook started requiring people sign up with their “authentic” names in 2014. Twitter invited anyone to apply to be “verified”—meaning Twitter certified they were who they claimed—in 2016. In December, OkCupid said it would no longer allow prospective daters to use names like “sexgirl_420.
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