So, I read a post in synecdochic's journal just now discussing the geolocation feature that LJ had added to its IP logging feature to tell you where commenters were from (the feature is now removed),
My reply was written solely to that. It seems you used the topic of LJ's geolocation reveal to launch into the general topic of "how to protect yourself online" and while that's perfectly fine and well, the thing that enabled LJ to do the geolocation reveal in te first place is the thing that is at fault, not us for not trying harder to hide everything we can hide (and believe me, I *do* plan to discuss this on my own journal at much length).
As to anon vs non-anon Internet, I've always heard quite the opposite: that it was the relative anonymity of the Usenet days that enabled quite a bit of material to get out and survive being out that would not have ever seen nor survived being out otherwise. We could go back and forth on that forever, I'm sure, but that's not my desire. My desire was to stick to the topic of LJ's geolocation reveal in my reply, regardless of whether you turned that topic into something else - a mere launch pad for how to protect yourself online, in this case - or not.
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My reply was written solely to that. It seems you used the topic of LJ's geolocation reveal to launch into the general topic of "how to protect yourself online" and while that's perfectly fine and well, the thing that enabled LJ to do the geolocation reveal in te first place is the thing that is at fault, not us for not trying harder to hide everything we can hide (and believe me, I *do* plan to discuss this on my own journal at much length).
As to anon vs non-anon Internet, I've always heard quite the opposite: that it was the relative anonymity of the Usenet days that enabled quite a bit of material to get out and survive being out that would not have ever seen nor survived being out otherwise. We could go back and forth on that forever, I'm sure, but that's not my desire. My desire was to stick to the topic of LJ's geolocation reveal in my reply, regardless of whether you turned that topic into something else - a mere launch pad for how to protect yourself online, in this case - or not.