Aestetix - Dragoncon August 2013

An exploration of identity

NymRights

Free Speech

✤ First Amendment:

✤ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Free Speech

✤ First Amendment:

✤ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Free Speech

Attribution

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/2d/bb/c5/bruegel-s-peasant.jpg http://musingsofamediastudent.wordpress.com/2011/06/

Attribution

✤ Does free speech necessitate anonymous speech?

✤ McIntyre vs Ohio Elections Commission (1995)

Bringing Identity Online

✤ Google’s Method:

Challenges with “real”

✤ Negative implications

✤ Lack of agency

✤ Easily substituted with better alternatives

✤ Where does this concept come from, anyways?

http://www.shescribes.com/2011/07/i-cant-believe-its-not-butter-toast-tweet-100-giveaway.html

Bringing Identity Online

✤ aestetix’s Method (draft spec):

✤ Pseudonym - a name often used to hide a base name

✤ Polynym - a name consisting of multiple words or symbols

✤ Mononym - a name consisting of one word or symbol

✤ Autonym - a name bestowed upon oneself

✤ Anonym - a name representing anonymity

So, what’s a “nym”?

What can I do?

✤ NymRights “Suspended!” project

What can I do?

✤ NymRights/MIT project: Omnividual.com

✤ A “nym-friendly” identity provider?

✤ Join NymRights! (www.nymrights.org)

✤ Anyone can be an IDESG/NSTIC member!

What can I do?

Questions?

✤ @aestetix