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Comment by davidgerard | Hacker News Reader

looks like he just told us

Lederer is the woman presented as an expert to criticize the practice...

> Jenny Lederer, a linguistics professor at San Francisco State University, argued that the Chatham House Rule has intrinsic flaws.

Exactly. "I really want to say conservative or racist things but don't want to be considered conservative or racist by the public!"

Do you think people on social media should be required to disclose their names?

I would love a real-names only network. There should be other networks as well, but this should be an option.

A lot of people on Facebook use their real names, and back before I quit it, I was pretty shocked at the kinds of horrible things people would say under their real name and under a picture of their face, also, knowing full well their friends and family could easily see it. I don't think real names would help that much.

That strikes me as boomer stuff though. Not as many millennial++ doing that, and I figure that number will just decline (especially given that you can easily just go be socially repulsive with anonymity and no repercussions on other mainstream networks now).

> boomer stuff

Makes note to self: calling people boomers is totally a-ok!

I am literally referring to baby boomers, which is a generation of Americans.

"Note to self: It's okay to call people millennials now?!"

Uh yes, it is.

We already have a few: LinkedIn and the real world.

LinkedIn is a professional network. It's not designed to facilitate the same types of conversations that happen e.g. on Twitter (and no, I don't think the presence of anon accounts make Twitter what it is, at least not in the circles I care about).

"Real world" is umm... okay. Thanks for the contribution.

I use mine. It keeps me honest.

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