The Internet may Never be the Same Again.

A Guy · Jun 18, 2008 2:50 AM

I hate to give out my real name. That's why I made my name on Yahoo "John Smith".

Doppelgangergang · Jun 18, 2008 2:51 AM

A Guy wrote:

I hate to give out my real name. That's why I made my name on Yahoo "John Smith".

Me too. You know what I use as my "real name" on Gmail or any other form that needs real name?

You guessed it:

Doppelgangergang A. Draconius. Heh. wink

DragonFireOKN · Jun 18, 2008 2:54 AM

Doppelgangergang wrote:

I hope Canada will still be the same...
EDIT: SF's server is in the US so if it gets censored, we will have a problem.

I doubt that will happen unless something major like cyber terrorism increased. Even they tried, people would find ways to get around it.

I can see it now: Youtube Underground.

Doppelgangergang · Jun 18, 2008 3:03 AM

DragonFireOKN wrote:

I doubt that will happen unless something major like cyber terrorism increased. Even they tried, people would find ways to get around it.
I can see it now: Youtube Underground.

Or an encrypted proxy server.

A Website can outfox China's filtering. Sure tech people can make such websites in free countries and deploy them to bypass the filter.

power to the people · Jun 19, 2008 2:16 AM

I didn't actually think they'd try and go through with it. First the Patriot Act and now this. What are they just trying to scream "Stay in line or we'll come to get you." (It's probably because of statements like that is why they'ree doing this.) Isn't this imposing on our right to anonymity and if anything this will only increase organized or premeditated crimes. Of course I don't think it's just your real name that they want. They will most likely be asking for your address as well. Otherwise they have no way of prooving that it's your real name. And that will only make matters of crime worse. What the crap are they trying to accomplish with this? "If anyone gets hurt because of meeting over the internet we'll be able to find them easier." That sounds like a huge load to me. If anything this will decrease the number of people using the internet because of overbearing parents, so any forum sites or chatrooms will eventually go down from not having enough members which is essentially what the internet was primarily used for. If anything this "law" would destroy the internet and then our only means of communication would be phones government officials could easily listen in on. This is terrible.

Doppelgangergang · Jun 19, 2008 2:18 AM

THIS IS ONLY SPECULATION, IT IS NOT TRUE!!!

The author has posted in this thread saying it is not true!

No worries!

power to the people · Jun 19, 2008 2:22 AM

Well that's a relief (I relly got to stop speed reading). Even so, I wouldn't count it out for future events that are being planned for us (for personal beliefas and reasons). This law definitely seems plausible to happen but that God it hasn't.

Doppelgangergang · Jun 19, 2008 2:23 AM

Yeah, I was stunned too when I read that. Good thing the author came and cleared stuff up.

bananababy · Jun 19, 2008 2:40 AM

I know its not true,
but if I had to use my name on the internet I'd destroy my PC with a nuke-bomb.
I basically depend on the anonymity of the 'nets to escape from stress.

DragonFireOKN · Jun 19, 2008 2:43 AM

If you did that, you would die too. Nuclear radiation.

bananababy · Jun 19, 2008 2:45 AM

Starting from now on (in case the netz are messed up,), my semi-official name is Banana..or Sub...or Shica.
Shica S. Gata-Lobo (Spanish for Cat-Wolf)

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