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• 1. At 7:52pm on 06 Jul 2008, Kaya75 wrote:

  No sorry i don't agree
  
  The Internet is for too public - there are many situations in life where you choose to be discrete with you hears your views / opinions.
  
  Often the voice is lowered or not used at all when interacting face to face there are many ways to convey your feeling.
  
  I'm not likely and nor would i ask anyone else to stand up with a megaphone and introduce myself before expressing an opinion, no matter how mundane the subject of my expression is.
  
  The only way that we are able to be discrete on the Internet is by pseudo names or handles.

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• 2. At 01:54am on 07 Jul 2008, Nick Vinehill wrote:

  Yes I do agree and have always maintained this!
  
  If someone has a general political view and is confident about it then they should be prepared to put their full name alongside that view in exactly the same way a letter correspondent does in one of the national newspaper letter sections. I even think they should be prepared to give their contact number or email address as well! The only exception to this of course is when the issue is of a particularly personal nature where the safety and integrity of a correspondent is threatened.
  
  Moreover, I think that callers to your show or indeed any BBC current affairs phone in programme, whether they come on air or have views read out as texts or emails should also have their full details announced.
  
  The reason is it might dissuade some of your more verbose and irrational correspondents contacting the programme with the sole intention of making subjective provocative racist slurs or personal attacks that completely circumvents the real issue that is being discussed.
  
  For example: a TimTrucker says 'Gordon Brown couldn't run a bath yet alone a country' Goodbye! So what's your reason Tim (surname and location unknown)?
  
  I think if this was applied to your programmes it would not only enhance the quality and style of your discussions but more essentially enhance democracy and free speech.
  

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• 3. At 07:40am on 07 Jul 2008, Bill_Dixon wrote:

  I agree, Victoria, but blame the BBC!
  
  The registration form asks us to "make up a member name", then gives illustrations like Blogfan, Newsjunkie etc.
  
  Get these peope running the Blog Network sorted out!

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• 4. At 10:19am on 07 Jul 2008, beachball64 wrote:

  I recently ran a petition on the Prime Ministers website. Several people i approached to sign it were amazed that i was willing to use my real name to do such a thing. Others said that they would not sign because they did not want their name in the public domain. They seeemed genuinely worried about how the Govt might use this information in the future. Now it occurs to me that if we make people use their real names in comment sites such as this, the amount and honesty of the comments will be affected. We will nearly all be self-censoring so much that pretty soon, all we would be good for is a career in politics.
  People may hide behind screen names to air views that many find unacceptable, but it is better to know that there are people out their with those views, so that we do not become complacent.

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• 5. At 12:39pm on 07 Jul 2008, ronxray wrote:

  Does it really matter?
  Why do you ask the question?
  
  I would love to know the names of your journalists so called sources, but there is no chance of that. We may find there are no sources, just a journalists view hidden by " a source close too *******"

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• 6. At 2:43pm on 07 Jul 2008, WonderfulWino wrote:

  I find myself in agreement with beachball64. mind you, I find Beaujolais 64 quite agreeable too.

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• 7. At 10:27am on 09 Jul 2008, topdownlover wrote:

  There are some situations where giving your real name is appropriate - such as signing beachball64's petition.
  
  Posting on a blog wouldn't necessitate the same degree of openness about your true identity however, although clearly its a matter of choice.
  
  Surely that is one of the great liberating features of the internet!
  
  But I am curious, and so would like to echo ronxray's question - "why do you ask?"

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• 8. At 4:51pm on 11 Jul 2008, stewie griffin wrote:

  I mean, honestly.

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