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by _heimdall 673 days ago
> Getting additional information about IP should be limited to law enforcement gov organizations (crime fighting).

How would that work in practice? Wouldn't companies like Google and Facebook still have so much user data as to effectively know everything they need about user IPs?

> Users should build they reputation on internet. If someone is asshole, then ok, expect to be banned on most places. Right now people do NOT care, because they are quite anonymous.

Combined with legal restrictions on IPs, how would this work? We would need some central authority for universal identity. If we look to the government there as well they'd have an easy path to censor whomever they want online.
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Borg3 673 days ago
They only know more because people are careless, providing them all the data. That is out of the scope. If you are careless, bad things can happen.

As for censorship, thet already can do it easy. Block domain for example of site when you publish you. Just try it yourself, setup up VPS w/ web that is very out of align with your gov. :)

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_heimdall 673 days ago
> They only know more because people are careless, providing them all the data. That is out of the scope. If you are careless, bad things can happen.

Anyone seriously interested in not providing any data likely isn't using the internet at all though they're already fine regardless of IP tracking. There are very few types of online service that don't require some kind of data to be useful, whether its a user login, email address, or search queries.

> As for censorship, thet already can do it easy. Block domain for example of site when you publish you. Just try it yourself, setup up VPS w/ web that is very out of align with your gov. :)

That's a single point of attack though. The government can censor my website by forcing infrastructure companies to block it. Unless I misunderstood your earlier message though, a central authority gate keeping IP data would almost certainly lead to a single entity having the power to block me from the internet entirely.

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Borg3 673 days ago
If you have better solution. I am all ears.

I am myself not interested in providing any data to those companies and I am still using Internet. Yeah, I am avoid FAANG and related sites tho. Not that I am feeling Im loosing anything importand really...

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