Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20150902173722/@comment-6747658-20151005045424

While that is true, we also have to keep in mind that the Patriots ended up filtering out a lot of information. Let's take the wiki page for example but to make it 'realistic', we'll claim it's an actual wikipedia page on the global wiki. Big Boss' page simple wouldn't exist because the Patriots most likely would have filtered it out.

Another factor to keep in mind is, regardless of making the headlines, public knowledgement would still be low key. I mean, how many historically evil soldiers/officers do you recognize? Take World War 2 for example, we can all tell Hitler by face because of his actions and his infamously iconic look. But what about other significantly high ranked officers? I've watched Discovery and Nat Geo enough, but I wouldn't be able to recognize any of them at sight.

Combining those two, I do not think the general public would recognize George Sears as Big Boss, less so with a clean shaven face and two eyes, two iconic features of older Big Boss. So ultimately again, this would only fall to the Government and Military practices as it seems those have a lot more information then the general public does, more so because the series has shown that the Government and several up in the Military were aware of the Patriots, the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo.

As for Mei Ling knowing Solid Snake....Mei Ling was no civilian, being with the ROTC, NRO and ENPIC, all before the Shadow Moses incident, which leaves a lot of room for her to learn about Solid Snake, even more so considering that the NRO is one of America's top  intelligence agencies like the CIA, they definitely would know about Solid Snake.