I'm old school and I made accounts for various social media I think several years ago back before they even had phone verification on a lot of these sites and some of it is just flat out broken unless you attach a phone number to them now and I simply wasn't prepared for how much cancer was involved lol. Just about managed to get it working but these sites really do break without a working phone number.
I wanted to scrub my big tech presence for the most part and just leave my youtube channel there to prevent any potential hostile takeover and clean up the history so everything is more consistent for my alt-tech stuff in the searches. To think as well they're going to make everything even worse now, we're going to have to give safety lectures to the next generations about internet security and what really happens with social media history. Got to think carefully about where you post your stuff because some of them don't even have delete options to at least take your stuff off the sites. We all know the fuckers will likely keep secret backups for the glowies to peruse even if you can delete stuff off the front end.
I think advising people use burner phones for any social media is going to be sound security advice at this point and always post up fake data.
UK and lol you don't know how fucked things can get here if you get noticed by the state, just ask Tommy Robinson. This is why I'm all like "Yeah, Russia looking quite good to me now" which might seem crazy to other people.
Certainly true for political prisoners, but as an average Joe you don't want to be in Russia.
Tommy really should come out as trans.
I'm an ex-UKIP member and was fairly active in politics a few years ago during the EU referendum, so it's not just necessarily me being paranoid. Look don't get me wrong, I'm not naïve about Russia being a dictatorship, it's just that's how badly the west treat's political opposition they don't approve of now. On top of that there's the whole recent debanking situation with Nigel Farage which is going to get more common. I'd rather get shot than have to deal with the shit people deal with in the west now.
There are much better places to go.
In Europe consider Serbia or some other non EU countries.
Thailand you can post anything you want, so long as it isn't about the king.
Several island nations that are former British colonies that don't even have the capacity to look at your internet postings. I believe Clease even described them as being more British than Britain.
Don't go to Russia.
you make good points, but I think the issue is that people here don't just want a more free country. they also want to live in a strong, advanced country that they can have national pride in. they wish it were America, or Britain, or wherever they were born in, and failing that they want a country as similar as possible.