EVE General Discussion

I wanted to take a moment to post on the forums about stuff that is somewhat important to me and some friends
like eve and video games. I am talking about recreation involving online video games and the research taken by
big brother on it, what I mean is the GOV , they seems to be in everything now, even taking peoples cigarette
butts and using them to collect dna. How do we know eve is secure in that re-guard. If I say something stupid
and is obvious jokes can they use what I say against me? Do I have to be so careful as to sensor anything that
I say to anyone? Just the other day I was joking about being in the mafia and doing funny stuff which I of course
can not do, right after I said it some fool said he was going to report me. What I was worried about is the fact that
not only would it be reported but it would go past ccp. I mean what I say by all of this. Does everyone need to now
lie about who they are so there's no issues?

Just some things I learned as a diplomat and leader of a corporation and alliance during a few years:

Assume whatever you say in any chat channel, private convo, or on the forums will be logged and can be recalled word-for-word by anyone at any point in the future.

Also assume that no matter how clear your sarcasm or joke is, someone somewhere will take your comment seriously.

Furthermore, if you hold any position of at least negligible importance in a corporation/alliance, assume that at some point your word will be interpreted as law and an official corporation/alliance policy.

Last, everything you say can and will be used against you, and will probably be used as evidence of you supporting a viewpoint completely opposite to what you were trying to say.



And I would reeeeeally avoid discerning any information which may potentially identify your out of game person to anyone but your closest friends. (I.e. people you wouldn't mind literally coming over to your house for any reason.) If you ever paid for EVE by anything other than PLEX, you will have to trust CCP to uphold their privacy policy - and you should make sure that CCP is the only person who can make the connection between you and your characters.