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VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2011.09.17 01:48:00 -
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I see this issue pop up from time to time, but there's a big logical disconnect between the tinfoil hats and the concerned citizen...which is that we already supply our real names and 'details' for billing info, and that's already available to governments (though this might make things easier or remove 'red tape'.) through both the game company and the ISP.
If you're a tinfoil hat, you're already afraid of this because it's a reality.
If you're a concerned citizen, nothing new has happened to be alarmed about.
For this to matter to you at all, you would need to be playing a free game on a free internet connection and that game would have to pop up with something stopping you from playing until you supply a name with something included to prevent you from lying. Probably something like paypal; a demand for a small amount of money like two cents paid electronically just to collect and prove your billing info... which you could decline and stop playing if you are so worried about your comments being viewable by the government.
I've never seen a law that says we'd have to put our names and details up for other players in the game... That would be the game changer for a lot of people. If you have one of those to link, I'd love to see that, but I don't think that's on the agenda for any government as even in the realm of tinfoil hats it doesn't really serve their purposes when they already have our names themselves. Information control would actually make it more in their interest to NOT force that so the information was theirs alone to work with and give out or conceal. |
VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2011.09.17 06:12:00 -
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SpaceSquirrels wrote:TMI applies on the internet. Especially if you got something to say that someone else doesn't like... Which pretty much means anything you say someone wont like.
This is something I wish more people would recognize.
A lot of these kinds of debates about anonymity devolve into flame wars over a few shallow points and this is one of them. The 'you shouldn't have anything to hide' crap. If you're talking to one person, sure, I'm honest and have nothing to hide. If we come to a disagreement we both are expected to be civil. But talking openly to millions who may read your statement at any time over potentially the rest of your life is very different.
Someone out there is offended by almost anything you can think of. Someone out there will take a statement the wrong way, no matter how well you word it. Someone out there is going to make a decision about your life like an employer, someone you ask out on a date, someone who evaluates you for an organ transplant list, and they won't be as smart as you or worse they'll be smarter than you are or know more than you do.
Even just looking at VOLUME of statements. You don't want someone trying to interpret years of statements to wildly different audiences in a few minutes and coming up with a snap judgement.
Complete anonymity is unrealistic, but availability to anyone is a possibility you should fight to keep from being realized. |
VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2011.09.17 09:56:00 -
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Pr1ncess Alia wrote:Now consider for a moment, many people in positions of power are intimidated and threatened by the leverage provided by the social movement/internet/communication revolution.
You used a little slight of keyboard to try and link this topic to general guerrilla communications, but there's a disconnect there in that we already have tools to accomplish those things that laws can't actually govern for exactly the topic's reason; they are nearly impossible to trace. It happens every day with China, and was instrumental in some of the recent events in t he middle east.
Granted, it's more technical than signing up for a web board or making a FB... but web boards weren't safe for that level of secrecy a decade ago. This law doesn't affect those issues. |
VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2011.09.17 19:28:00 -
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Bane Necran wrote:OH GOD I'M SO ANGRY AT YOU FOR THINGS YOU DIDN'T SAY
lol he mad.
I don't even own a TV lol...
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VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2011.09.17 23:32:00 -
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Bane Necran wrote: ...all the rational points i made.
lol... |
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