“Everybody out there that’s watching, everybody that’s watching this world? This world is bullshit. You shouldn’t model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we’re wearing and what we’re saying and everything.” - Fiona Apple.
Same with randomly getting accused of being a pedo in public. This is not a thing that’s happened nor have a ever been afraid of. Are all those guys projecting something. Must be.
Probably the same person.
I never stopped pirating. It’s been so weird seeing the zeitgeist over the past 15 years shifted into corporate ass kissing. Like I get it. Everyone grew up and became working stiffs. Sat in your stuffy suits in cubicles and started believing the corporate bullshit you had to huff every day.
It’s been weird though. How we went from the great recession Occupy Wall Street mindset into a 180 pivot of pro-corporations. I sure did enjoy being lectured about paying monthly fees for owning nothing and making sure I enjoying it like a good consumer.
These barriers filter out real people. The ones that get through are determined. They will have a vested interest in doing so. Such as bot farms, state actors to garden variety internet trolls, or other agents with ulterior motive.
The average user isn’t going to be figuring out how to game the system. They’ll frustrate and leave. Or even continue posting unaware their posts and comments are not visible.
What’s stupid is that reddit has filtered for the lowest common denominators (read: idiots). A while back was ridiculed on reddit for saying you need to bake accounts. The digital literacy has stooped so low that users on there can’t fathom such a concept.