re privacy concerns on saidit

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[–]Alienhunter 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

It's the public internet. Assume that anyone can see what you do. Since duh, you are publishing material that is accessible to the public. If law enforcement wants to find you they can. If the site owners want to give your IP logs to law enforcement, or anyone. They can.

Nothing you do is really anonymous online. You don't want to publish personal information not because law enforcement can get it, they can get it anyway. You don't want to do it because you'll get crazy people harassing you because they don't like something you said.

If I said my name was Marry Poppins and I lived at number 16 cherry tree lane. You can expect that I'd be getting signed up for annoying newsletters and junk mail and shite from some idiot. Could also send you harassment mail in real life. Death threats bomb threats whatever dumb shit insane internet types do.

Are they legit? Usually not, the problem is you can't tell the trolls from the truly criminal so you've got to take shit seriously.

[–]panel30[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks this is helpful. Who is it that the message is trying to warn us about though? intelligence operatives, law enforcement, paid manipulators ... that might or might not have the resources or interest to acquire IP information.

[–]Alienhunter 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's just typical conspiratorial paranoia. All those people exist and might be here. And nothing you do is truly private. But they also don't give a fuck about you unless you do something to bother them. They can't fuck with random people too much or else it will backfire on them.

The inner party doesn't care to police the proles so much as they care to control the outer party.