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Madeline Brownstone on 14 Aug 10"Last week, one of the world's most successful online gaming companies, Blizzard Entertainment of Irvine, told its global community of World of Warcraft players that they'd have to use real names in forums. The pushback was severe. The most outraged, as Register writer Ian Hamilton reported, lashed out by publishing online every public item they could find about Blizzard employees and, in some cases, their relatives."
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Madeline Brownstone on 14 Aug 10Might be a good lead article to spur classroom debate about anonymity in social networking.