http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/loadFeature/3672/page/1
What brought on this fit of global rage? A seemingly harmless news item published at Gamepolitics.com informing the world that a company in China is requiring players of one of its games to prove their real life sex before making their characters. No, I'm wrong actually, this insane policy only applies to people choosing to create a female character. Women, it appears, are free to pose as men as much as their little hearts desire.
This company cares so deeply that not only are they freezing the accounts of any male players who may have happened to have created female toons, but they are even going so far as to require "gamers who chose female characters to prove their biological sex with a webcam."
Seriously some of the craziest shit I've heard yet.
I wonder... if a company in the US were ever to implement something similar, exactly how many different lawsuits would result, and how many kiddies today would actually send free porn to these wackos before they got shut down?
