On Being on the Wrong End of Attention
Apparently, someone figured out that you can find out a lot about people if you have their real name.
This “stunt” was done in protest to the requirement of having to use your real name, if you want to play on Blizzard’s games.
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I would just prefer to hide behind an IP address. But for the information of myself that I am making available online, there is an internet approval committee (i.e. me) that decides if it is safe to put up or not, and it’s not just any old random crazy stuff. (You may beg to differ after going through the blog’s archives, but please humour me.)
As for WOW and StarCraft II players, I think that there is really no good reason to force people to use real names. I mean, I don’t use my real name when I go on plentyoffish for safety reasons, right? There are unscrupulous women who would think nothing of seducing and taking advantage of poor innocent Alfred!
