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How would the Internet change if you were required to sign everything with your real name?

Most people here use pseudonyms or nicknames. If there suddenly became a law that everyone had to use their real name for everything (and somehow it could be magically enforced) how would the internet change? Would it be the same as usual or would parts of it become a ghost town?
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konsiders | 2 years, 6 months ago
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Unlike in real life, your real name would be tagged to everything you do. You could be searched and judged, stalked and had evidence compiled to work on a court case against you or a means to drop your credit score.
In real life (specifically here in America), you don't attach your name to everything you do, you are given an element of freedom and privacy. You can walk to the grocery store and buy whatever you like. You can pretend to be someone else, or go incognito for weeks at a time.

The internet would not exist except as a way of downloading facts from informational websites. There would be no games, or blogs, or question sites. Just pure fact and information. Everything else would become a ghost town.

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vicgoodwin2 | 2 years, 6 months ago
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Since I really don't go anywhere that I would be uncomfortable to be seen or recognized as having visited, I wouldn't change anything.

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