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💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ✍️🎭 #BenjaminFranklin kept creating fictional characters – Silence Dogood, Poor Richard Saunders, Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim – to publish opinions his real name couldn’t carry.

These alter egos let the Founding Father critique authority, satirize slavery apologists, and experiment with #ideas, all from behind a mask. Historian David Waldstreicher says it gave Franklin "the most freedom" he ever knew.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/among-all-great-things-benjamin-franklin-invented-discovered-alter-egos-gave-him-most-freedom-180988824/

#history #inventions #satire #pseudonyms #philadelphia #london #freespeech #abolition #almanac #printing #science #media

Among All the Great Things Benjamin Franklin Invented or Discovered, His Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom

Silence Dogood. Richard Saunders. Benevolus. Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim. All were pen names that allowed Franklin to say things he couldn’t have otherwise said

Smithsonian Magazine

PrivacyDigest Jun 3

#xAI Asks #Court to Strip Alleged #Grok #Deepfake #Nudes Victims of #Anonymity

Four people suing Elon Musk's #AI firm under #pseudonyms due to the risks of being #identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.
#musk #privacy

https://www.wired.com/story/xai-asks-court-to-strip-alleged-grok-deepfake-nudes-victims-of-anonymity/

xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity

Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.

WIRED

noyb.eu Mar 4

⚖️ Companies are trying to use #pseudonyms to get out of GDPR compliance. This could soon be made easier – at least if the EU Commission's #DigitalOmnibus passes. Watch now to learn more!

👤 featuring data protection lawyer Levan Lobzhanidze

#GDPR #EU

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F3715H Mar 3

@crapaud @404mediaco espechally when it's engangering peoples' safety and wellbeing.

- There's a reason why #Sexworkers use Artist #Pseudonyms!

#SexWorkisWork #Safety

Don Hawkins - W7DAH Feb 4

Does #mastodon.social #instance / #server #rules include any specific rule against #ageism or #age #discrimination? I am not finding any. Have I simply overlooked it?

This instance’s #moderation seems to condone or even encourage, through lack of #enforcement , #age related #abuse of #seniors #elderly and those who have been around long enough to have actually #witnessed some stuff. And it typically comes from accounts using #pseudonyms to hide behind as they hurl their #attacks

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Jan 20

Timeless #Female #Authors Who Wrote Under #Male #PenNames

A look inside the lives of several female authors who used male #pseudonyms to shape #literature and bypass #societal boundaries.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/female-authors-who-used-male-pen-names?utm_source=RSS

Timeless Female Authors Who Wrote Under Male Pen Names

A look inside the lives of several female authors who used male pseudonyms to shape literature and bypass societal boundaries.

Mental Floss

N-gated Hacker News Dec 14, 2025

🚀 Welcome to Freakpages: where your IP becomes your new best friend and you can finally learn about the mating habits of the lesser-spotted, double-backed lemming. 🦆 Because who doesn't want to scroll through a Wikipedia knockoff with more #pseudonyms than a spy novel? 🤔
https://freakpages.org/ #Freakpages #IPlearning #LemmingMating #WikipediaKnockoff #HackerNews #ngated