I don't understand the problem. It should be fucking apparent by now that no site on the internet can / will / wants to protect your identity. That's on you. A

I don't understand the problem. It should be fucking apparent by now that no site on the internet can / will / wants to protect your identity. That's on you. Anyone accessing websites with their names, emails attached to their names, emails attached to their phone numbers attached to their names, birthdays in their handles, handles that aren't random strings, identifying passwords, avatars in use on other accounts, images also hosted on flickr, g+, insta, etc. should take it for fucking granted that there is now zero reasonable expectance of privacy. We had the chance for the internet to be a beautiful, anonymous playground, but a few too many people showed up dead on the chan and now the crybabies with body image issues have managed to make all of the above borderline required in the name of stopping "cyber-bullying" and "terrorism." (try to sign up for an account, say a meetup account -- requires an email. Burn emails are blocked for "spam." So you need a gmail. Gmail requires phone number. SIM requires passport identification in europe... > meetup.com requires passport identification... a few alternatives still exist, mail.com for example doesn't require phone verification... yet. Facebook requires an actual scan of the passport if you put in estimably fake information.) And with that thought paradigm, that your ID is a requirement of internetting, comes stupid people getting butthurt by shit like this "oh, but I put forward all this identifying information with the expectation that I would be anonymous, oh, oh, oh". All this because some bitch on youtube can't handle the fact that obesity is not in fact a disease, and because something that kills less people than accidentally suffocating in bed has become an excuse to usher in the police states of america. There was a better way, where this this would never happen. But we as a people opted to go this new direction. Wear a fucking jacket if it's cold and remember _you_ wanted to vacation on the baltic beaches in march, not me.