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by boring_twenties 867 days ago
You have it exactly backwards. Why should anyone on the whole Internet have access to my physical address? I reject someone's pull request on github and now I have to worry they might show up at my door? Fuck everything about that.
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williamcotton 867 days ago
What do I have backwards? How could any of those questions be answered without public records?

It's fine that you have found some negative scenarios, but any changes to this practice must address what would be lost!

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boring_twenties 866 days ago
You have yet to give a single reason why it needs to be public

If you need to sue me for dumping chemicals, you can pretty well be bothered to go down to the clerk and show your own ID. It's not a problem. There is no need for my home address to be searchable by the whole Internet

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williamcotton 865 days ago
There is a world of a difference between us looking after each other and them looking after us.

Put this in the context of the liberal democratic republic as it was born from monarchy: we must leave the “benevolent”, God-graced structure of government behind. In its stead is the common man governing himself, and with all the faults and warts, it is still more conducive to our expected freedoms.

There is not much more of an argument than I can offer other than the hundreds of years of actual practice.

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