VPN it up, overwrite last legitimate legitimate IP record. Might be screwed on the IP record of your originally registered account if you haven't changed IPS services since then.
Cloudflare and Twitter might still have extensive IP records though, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to tie those in with specific accounts or posts. At least not if they didn't feel like putting in the extra effort of tying in connection times to comment timestamps.
The vast majority of IPs are dynamic from a pool. Maybe they don't change often, but the only possible way to tie an IP to a living person reliably would be ISP records. There's some notion that an IP is some sort of undeniable secret code that identifies a person, and its just not. It's pretty useless really. More info could be taken from Google-like browser fingerprinting.
It would be much more productive to go shut such sites down and or restrict access to them than spend so much effort trying to track down and go after individual users of a site. We get to KGB level "disappearances" being commonplace before random website users are tracked down en masse.
Oh I never pretended that a VPN or whatever was a surefire protective screen. Or that it's even necessary per say to retain some level of anonymity against such efforts as what NY is doing.
But it should probably be ample to make it inconvenient enough unless you're really attracting some serious attention.
It's not about cowardice so much as preferring to avoid potential inconveniences.
Plus I mostly just wanted to provide some details and context others might not be aware of. I'd rather people be informed about their options and let them choose how they want to play things out for themselves.
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VPN it up, overwrite last legitimate legitimate IP record. Might be screwed on the IP record of your originally registered account if you haven't changed IPS services since then.
Cloudflare and Twitter might still have extensive IP records though, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to tie those in with specific accounts or posts. At least not if they didn't feel like putting in the extra effort of tying in connection times to comment timestamps.
The vast majority of IPs are dynamic from a pool. Maybe they don't change often, but the only possible way to tie an IP to a living person reliably would be ISP records. There's some notion that an IP is some sort of undeniable secret code that identifies a person, and its just not. It's pretty useless really. More info could be taken from Google-like browser fingerprinting.
It would be much more productive to go shut such sites down and or restrict access to them than spend so much effort trying to track down and go after individual users of a site. We get to KGB level "disappearances" being commonplace before random website users are tracked down en masse.
Unless you completely change your writing style when you post, it's only a matter of time before what you write is de-anonymized.
And even if you do change your writing style, maybe you don't realize that some idiom you still use can tie you to a particular region.
Oh I never pretended that a VPN or whatever was a surefire protective screen. Or that it's even necessary per say to retain some level of anonymity against such efforts as what NY is doing.
But it should probably be ample to make it inconvenient enough unless you're really attracting some serious attention.
Or you could not be a coward. There's nothing illegal going on here, no need to hide.
It's not about cowardice so much as preferring to avoid potential inconveniences.
Plus I mostly just wanted to provide some details and context others might not be aware of. I'd rather people be informed about their options and let them choose how they want to play things out for themselves.