I fully agree with every word of Diver Dan. I am also happy to pay for privacy.

I would like to add that if our true identities were published here, then foreign governments could also dig it and take steps against us. I can definitely see how I could be affected.

Three very good posts all I agree with.
But csteele the one thing concerns me.
I totally support privacy.
And understand one who has no way of paying may well not come at all if it is clear by posting history this is true.
The pride of the poor is strong.
I am heartened that we seem on the way to funding the site.
Concerned, strongly, about others being intruded on , and quite concerned at what could happen by naming everyone.
I am not on face book, out o contact with mates and family.
Because I believe much grief is coming daily to some because of too much openness.

"If Anti's identity were to become known I'd probably have to remove a number of his as well."

Graham just to clarify, am I right in thinking that there is no intention of identifying existing posts by real names, rather the possibility that future posts may need to be done under a real name?

I assume that you are talking about a situation where someone's real name is associeted with an online alias by someone other than yourself.

I doubt that I could continue posting if required to do so under my real name, can't imagine that I could or would change my writing style, topics I comment on etc enough to avoid my real name being easily linked to past posts which could create tension elsewhere in my life for reasons already discussed.

R0bert

This post may be a little tangential to the topic, but since the subject of the funding of OLO has arisen in connection with the viability of pseudonymity, I hope Poirot will forgive this little diversion into a 'crescent' off the main road.

Back in February, at around the time when the advertising revenue of the OLO site was attacked by, ostensibly in the first instance, a small number of persons purporting to demand that OLO effectively censor both 'the Muehlenberg article' and some of the comments made thereto, I attempted to make a donation to OLO. From memory, the amount was to have been of $50.

I used the 'donate' button on the maroon bar at the top of the OLO page to commence the procedure. I then clicked on the text link 'click here', as I was obviously already logged into the Forum. The screen that displays lists a Visa credit card as one of the acceptible payment/donation vehicles. I have an ANZ Rewards VISA credit card, and entered all the relevant information required by the online form. This was the result: http://twitpic.com/7ku9pi

I had made no mistakes in entering details. The card used was and remains a valid working credit card. I use it all the time. I was intending to fund the donation from my up to then never-used Reward Points, but with the notification that the transaction had failed and that I would not be billed, I forgot all about the incident.

Some months after the attempt to donate I noticed on my ANZ Rewards VISA card statement that I had been charged $40.00 for the 'Rewards' facility related to that card that I had NEVER, EVER, before or since, attempted to use in claiming any reward. I just put this down, in quiet fury, to the chiselling greed of the banks that is seemingly so prevalent these days.

Today I saw this: http://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/140819176481763329 . I can't presently view the YouTube video, but it makes me wonder was/is more than just advertising revenue for OLO interdicted?

Happy to co-operate with any investigation.

gosh durn it forrest
i followed your twiiter link

and joined twitwitters
it seems to refuse all my names

so im now

oneunderstands
[i think]

its funny...im fighting post limitations..[of 35o words]
and only 4 posts a day here..yet now are chosing to be further limited to 140 characters...[yep its a lol]

i also moved back to
the world freeman society
as in limiting my words..i note they have become unreadable

so i started a new evolution topic there

in light of the massive error..in trying to reply..
[using the then 2 post limits..that then aplied here]

even with the four articles presents it needs the flow broken..and the delayed posting allowance...well add in the subscription thingy
and other matters we most recently noted here

im just taking precautions
[my twiiter leads them back here
cause here are the bulk of my posts]

but in time plan to edit them into some form of clarity
where im not time and space limited..[using the twitter to advice topics maybe]

dont know..but its just the vibe of it

just like i de-test facebook's vibe
and other paid sites

where the converted yap with others also so converted
moneyed elites..in their own misama..[like that ex olo posters forum]..the only agreement they have
is dislike of this one

i just dont need that
i need people who think
or dare to dream

its funny how we spend trillions to learn things
like mars or the hedron colliders..[ie info costs money

so sure..they pay
but it should never cost..to share a new thought

anyhow here is the link
to my first twitted wit link topic
http://forum.worldfreemansociety.org/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=12018

Forrest Gumpp I too can not go to tube yet but am interested in the contents of your link.
I have had no troubles donating.
Past two years and another further back.
I have committed to a monthly one urge others who can afford it to do so.
I support and understand ROberts view.
Two issues one I support second,haveing considered it, is not going to work.
*Stars in Bars* some will try to build a profile here if it bis known who they are.
Others like RObert of real value here will leave.
It should be known by Graham who each of us is, proving checked and known.
Problem children should not be rewarded by making us all suffer.