• Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      What’s your real name and address?

      Seems like you’re using 1985MustangCobra to mask your identity. We should ban all online usernames and tie everything to a digital Id

      • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        that’s not the same, if i was commit a hate crime for example, on this profile, and the police investigated it, they can get my ip address from my client connection. however, someone doing the same and masking their ip address with a VPN to like, i dunno, sweeden but they live in the UK, is a big problem when VPN providers make bold claims of “protecting your identity”

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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          Getting an IP isn’t even enough since the average user has a dynamic IP resolving to a box or center nearby but not yheir actual home address. They’d have to subpeona the ISP, which isn’t necessarily compelled to comply.

          Hell, my IP doesnt even resolve to the same city I am in.

        • root@lemmy.wtf
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          1 month ago

          so you want the government to be able to geolocate anybody? alright reddit, this one escaped

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          1 month ago

          so you want the government to be able to geolocate anybody? alright reddit, this one escaped

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      9 months ago

      That’s one small use case. There are many other legitimate uses for them. Seems a bit odd to be so against them because they might possibly be used for nefarious purposes. Have you personally been victimized by a VPN user?

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      9 months ago

      You sound scared. You don’t have to be online if there is too much risk of you getting your feelings hurt, you can just go touch grass. Even the people you don’t like have a right to privacy.

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      1 month ago

      im sorry sir you need to hand over all your knives because LUNATICS use them to attack others also put this straitjacket on while youre doing so, as MANIACS use their fists to attack others