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US Politics 23w
This protects minors. I’m completely ignorant as to why people need to browse the Internet anonymously other than for a nefarious reasons. Someone do explain why this is bad and why you would need to be anonymous while browsing the internet.
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US Politics 23w
Do you like browsing the internet anonymously? Too bad, because they’re about to require ID for everything. Because billionaires don’t think they have enough money, so they need to collect even more data.
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Anonymous 23w

Well for one if I criticized Israel online in the state I lived in I could possibly lose my job

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Anonymous 23w

Using children to justify mass surveillance is some real dystopian shit.

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Anonymous 23w

Not to mention that if you don’t use a VPN your IP is attached to everything you do. You could dig an IP and find out everything you need from a person so if you are ever connected to the internet and you IP is not secured you aren’t browsing anonymously. For 80% of people this doesn’t really change anything. Your ISP also sells your information regardless legal or not. The internet isn’t private.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 23w

I believe that would be a violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act as they would not have access to that information unless the ID is public information which would be insane. But I don’t know

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 23w

For 80% of Americans they won't even understand what happened yet there's a likelihood that data breaches will make their data even more vulnerable and centralized. Just because most Americans won't understand it doesn't mean it's a good idea. Nobody noticed when the USA PATRIOT Act was signed and recorded everyone's phone calls, were they happy when they found out?

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