Comment by chii

Comment by chii 10 months ago

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which would defeat the purpose of tor, as your account (and presumably, your location at the time of signup), can be easily linked to your tor traffic.

The reason tor traffic is often denied is because it's hard to block or track "the same" tor use, and some people used to abuse this to perform actions that the platform does not want.

You cannot really have true privacy, and also have moderation of content.

salawat 10 months ago

The assumption there is that trackability is a desirable characteristic to have in a technical system. As someone who sees technical systems as the onramps to centralized abuse by institutional power, I don't see trackability as a feature, but rather an anti feature.

Consider this: just like fraud, the ideal amount of it in any purportedly liberal civilization is non-zero, because the freedom from which is derived the opportunity to engage in the behavior is more important than perfect attribution, detectability, and prosecubility of it.

People don't realize that when you set goals of zero'ing out these sorts of things, you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.