Out of Pod Experience

There is a potential change in the way that people are tracked on the net.. It is being discussed in UK that they will have to supply their real names and possibly details.
How do you feel about this. Is the"Eve Paradox" reliant on anonymity and do you think you would post on these forums if you had to supply RL details?
Reason I started this in the Eve discussion is could impact the Eve community because TQ resides in the UK so this would affect all pod pilots.
I don't know whether it would be mandatory to release said details or what could be done with these (besides being sold on to raise cash) but this is a potential bombshell imo.

Comments?

im sure that 300k people dont want your number either

would it be possible to get a link to this information please?

The majority would never agree to have that I think, I know I wouldn't.
Those of you that was around when SCII and battle.net launched know what I mean.

I've used an email address containing my real name to register for some Eve stuff. A diligent researcher could probably sort through my long history of drunk posts and confessions of uncouth personal conduct if they really wanted to. But if I had to have my real name listed under my character name or something then I doubt I'd post any more often than I do on Facebook (two or three posts a month at most.)

not as unlikely as you think

S. Korea had a severe problem with internet stalking (several celebrities committing suicide over online rumors/troll posts/stalking) and now many websites require you to provide your real name and resident registration number when registering an account.

This information is of course not displayed to other users but stored by the site provider to ensure accountability and responsible behavior.

Hi,

While I understand the reason for creating this thread in "EVE General Discussion", I think it still belongs in OOPE -- so moving it here.

publicized RL details = instant unsub, and I won't look back

I go to online games to get AWAY from the real world. Also, even if a person is not that interesting to the public, chances are there is at least one person out there who is VERY interested in you in a not-so-good way, and real names give them yet another avenue to get at you. Police don't act at all until there is an obvious threat of physical violence, and may be too late when it gets to that. I know people who have been stalked IRL and it is NOT a joke, it is really disturbing and harmful.

The end result will be to track everything you say and if government (dys)functionaries don't agree with any criticism you post, anywhere, they can ninny and say they feel threatened just to get you rolled up and shut up.

And if you don't think that can happen, don't forget a lot of people were gassed in death camps while expecting only a shower. They were fooled, and you can be fooled too.

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.