Former Digg refugee now Reddit refugee

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[–]FreeJulianAssange 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Anonymous works fine. When Digg was better than anything we have now, I had a quite anonymous account and all was fine. It's just a canard by people who want to control information.

In fact if we can't be anonymous, we can't speak freely at all. We all now now in the back of our minds that almost everything we write can be traced to us by law enforcement or others.

Recently I tried to log in to a secondary youtube channel I own, registered to a protonmail adress. I even still knew the password. Yet to "pretect me" google won't let me log in to my own account again EVER unless I give a cellphone number which they than can easily trace to connect with all the other data they have.

Anonymous speech is the only free speech.

[–]twosheds 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Just discovered that not only does yahoo not let you create an email without a phone number, but they "don't support" google voice numbers.

I just want to be anonymous enough that some blue-haired landwhale admin at reddit or some other sjw infested company can't try to get me fired for wrongthink. I'm sure my data at my isp is not safe, I'm sure my data at reddit is not safe, and I'm sure my data at google is not safe - and it's not likely I'd have any legal recourse if some social justice psychopath managed to get me fired.

[–]FreeJulianAssange 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Same here man. I've been censoring myself for years now on most platforms especially the big ones. I work in a field where I could easily be fired for enough rumors (mental health field, with juveniles). Luckily I saw this coming in the times of the Snowden revelations, so well before the cancelling truly began.

Either I'm anonymous, or I can't really speak on many subjects. It is simply too dangerous now. For example: I've smoked weed for 20+ years. That alone could get me fired possibly where I am. I'm not going to test it.

Anyone who thinks you can have honest conversations without anonymity is dreaming the sweet dream of perpetual delusion.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

i years ago had a twitter account, litterally named "fake name" but now they don't let me log into it for same reason you mention.

[–]FreeJulianAssange 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh you must ba a Russian BOT then :D. I had a twitter account briefly. Now I read for info, but will never make one again. I am always keeping an eye on new platforms though. Sooner or later one based on privacy must arise and have at least decent success.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I do like to read twitter, lot of trash there but some people post good thoughts, and I'd want to make a name for myself jujst to be able to save peoples twitter accounts I like but yeah anyway it's not worth the trouble