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Re: Blog Anonymously

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Post by syshum »

mkl wrote: post #83
syshum wrote: post #32

Having gotten my start on the internet mid 90's it always amazes me the number of people that attached their offline identities to their online identies This was just something that was unheard of back then. It was an extension of "Stranger Danger" that you did not reveal who you were to the wide internet, sure some of your close friends may have known your online name but it was not openly broadcasted Fast forward t…

> Having gotten my start on the internet mid 90's it always amazes me the number of people that attached their offline identities to their online identies > This was just something that was unheard of back then. This is not entirely true. I remember many people using their real names on Usenet, or on mailing lists.

Were they real name, or did they just look real.

Like I could post under the name JosephDotson, that could be a real name but it is not my real name

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Post by adrusi »

surround wrote: post #82

> Feel free to use a VPN, though Tor is more than enough for your needs. This is a misconception. Using a VPN with TOR makes you less anonymous, not more. https://write.privacytools.io/my-thoughts-on-security/slicin...

ISP -> VPN -> Tor can be a good idea depending on your threat model, but if you're not completely sure that you need to do so, it's best to avoid it.

ISP -> Tor -> VPN is generally extremely stupid, as tor is doing absolutely nothing for you if your VPN subscription is tied to your true identity. If, on the other hand, your VPN subscription is completely isolated from your true identity, then this can be a good way to bypass restrictions imposed by sites that block Tor. I'm not aware of tor-friendly VPN services, but I am aware of at least one tor-friendly VPS provider, which should be just as good given that your VPS subscription would not be tied to your true identity. Would not recommend using this method more than absolutely necessary, because although you can keep your true identity secret if you're very careful, it does become substantially easier to track you and ultimately unveil you by studying correlations (for one example, if your VPN is only active on the network while your home internet is connected to a Tor relay, over time you could be singled out as the most like source of that traffic).

Re: Blog Anonymously

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Post by mobilejdral »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #87
femiagbabiaka wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is a compelling hypothetical, but I can't think of a single person who only said they were in support of strong border protection and limited immigration and was subject to anything like what you're saying. Could you provide an example of what you mean?

JK Rowling is a good example of middlebrow views getting you and anyone who can be associated with you in trouble. She has widely-held opinions like trans-women should be respected, but they are different from women. But if you log on to Twitter, she's vilified so much as a "transphobe" that people have been attacked for merely signing the same open-letter that she signed. https://twitter.com/emilyvdw/status/12805803…

> She has widely-held opinions like trans-women should be respected

Um no. She has admitted to being part of the known trans hate group GenderCritical.

Edit: not sure why I am getting downvoted. She uses talking points from the GenderCritial group when she writes and even mentions them by name and that group was banned by reddit for being a hate group.

Re: Blog Anonymously

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Post by vonmoltke »

vorpalhex wrote: post #65

This is very incomplete advice for the given threat scenario of "fearful of government persecution". > Snagging a cheap or used device is a good option Cheap devices may well phone home and a used device may be tampered with. I was surprised when reflashing a burner Xiaomi device to see the bootloader contained a nod to the CCP. > Navigate to WordPress.com and setup a free account with that new email address. Certain…

> This is very incomplete advice for the given threat scenario of "fearful of government persecution".

That is in the list of things the article is saying it is not for.

Re: Blog Anonymously

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Post by dandellion »

roenxi wrote: post #59
dandellion wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not new. It was huge when religion was more prevalent, for example, but it was becoming less of a problem as society became more educated and secular. Now there's a new wave riding on top of social media like Twitter, and as it gains more popularity it's becoming more about flaming vs virtue signalling than making actual progress.

> but it was becoming less of a problem as society became more educated and secular The last generation of control freaks had figured out how to use religion as a medium for their desires. They were caught flat-footed by new internet media like everyone else. The next generation have now learned how to use twitter. The basic tactics probably haven't changed that much but the details of the message are new. I doubt ed…

We all can get caught up in to some degree. Some of the change is great, but the snowballing effect of social media leads to some mistakes that get easily out of hand. Education hasn't been able to adapt fast enough to technology and has left people unprepared for this sort of thing. It's not that it's a driving issue but it hasn't been of help when ideally it would have.

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Post by ksml »

newacct583 wrote: post #76
Emma_Goldman wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an unhelpful exaggeration to suggest that speech is being suppressed in the conventional sense that the threat or use of coercion is being employed to restrict speech. But we care not only about whether debate is suppressed. We also care about the quality of debate, the culture, values and practices through which we engage with one another in the public sphere. The concern over 'cancel culture' would be, I think…

Are those list items really that bad, though? Paraphrasing #4: you're saying that we need to welcome, broadcast and hire people who we genuinely think are vile and awful? Where's the middle ground. If we can't fire, say, violent racists, and we can't escape their words, and we can't avoid them socially, what can we do? I think the answer to that, if you look at it carefully, is going to be pretty much isomorphic to w…

I think you're making a false dichotomy. You can avoid ostracising and deplatforming people without welcoming and broadcasting them.

Re: Blog Anonymously

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Post by ronsor »

adrusi wrote: post #92
surround wrote: post #82

> Feel free to use a VPN, though Tor is more than enough for your needs. This is a misconception. Using a VPN with TOR makes you less anonymous, not more. https://write.privacytools.io/my-thoughts-on-security/slicin...

ISP -> VPN -> Tor can be a good idea depending on your threat model, but if you're not completely sure that you need to do so, it's best to avoid it. ISP -> Tor -> VPN is generally extremely stupid, as tor is doing absolutely nothing for you if your VPN subscription is tied to your true identity. If, on the other hand, your VPN subscription is completely isolated from your true identity, then this can be a good way t…

I have not done much research, but I believe Mullvad allows you to pay for a VPN anonymously using cash.

Re: Blog Anonymously

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Post by tw04 »

wGeF7H8Z59y985y wrote: post #13

> Why should someone interact with something that the author doesn't throw his/her/their name into? We currently live in a "there is only one correct opinion, all others must be canceled" culture. They've already come for anyone who showed even the faintest trace of dissent from the mindlessly woke mob's narrative. Next they'll come for those who have stayed silent. Failure to project virtue signaling will soon be us…

Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences of that speech. What planet do you live on that you think everyone else should have to both listen to what you say, and then not "punish" you for it? If you tell your wife she looks fat, she's probably not having sex with you that evening. If you call someone a racial slur, they're probably both going to tell everyone they know about what you said, and refuse to interact with you unless forced to.

What you're talking about isn't freedom of speech, it's freedom FROM responsibility. I don't think you're going to find very many people that want to sign up for: HNThrowaway262 can do whatever he wants and you just have to take it. That's a dictatorship or a monarchy, you might want to live in that society but I don't.

Your words and actions have consequences and SHOULD.

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Post by notRobot »

adrusi wrote: post #92
surround wrote: post #82

> Feel free to use a VPN, though Tor is more than enough for your needs. This is a misconception. Using a VPN with TOR makes you less anonymous, not more. https://write.privacytools.io/my-thoughts-on-security/slicin...

ISP -> VPN -> Tor can be a good idea depending on your threat model, but if you're not completely sure that you need to do so, it's best to avoid it. ISP -> Tor -> VPN is generally extremely stupid, as tor is doing absolutely nothing for you if your VPN subscription is tied to your true identity. If, on the other hand, your VPN subscription is completely isolated from your true identity, then this can be a good way t…

> If ... your VPN subscription is completely isolated from your true identity

One way to do this is to get a Mullvad subscription, and to pay for it with bitcoin.

They don't even require an email address.

Re: Blog Anonymously

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Post by as1mov »

newacct583 wrote: post #39
wGeF7H8Z59y985y wrote: post #13

> Why should someone interact with something that the author doesn't throw his/her/their name into? We currently live in a "there is only one correct opinion, all others must be canceled" culture. They've already come for anyone who showed even the faintest trace of dissent from the mindlessly woke mob's narrative. Next they'll come for those who have stayed silent. Failure to project virtue signaling will soon be us…

Good grief. What happened to "Democrats are coming for your guns"? At least that one sorta made sense. Can you name three significant ideas whose debate has been suppressed online? Because I'll bet that for each of those I can find a 200+ comment flame war on this very site. > They've already come for anyone who showed even the faintest trace of dissent from the mindlessly woke mob's narrative They did? Who won?

This article from The Atlantic[1] does a much better job explaining the issue. It contains more than a handful of examples of people getting fired for really benign opinions, also this is just in the last few months.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/perils-us-...

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