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> Instead we get one where you can’t even be anonymous without rubbing elbows with child predators. There have been secretive child predators ever since statut

> Instead we get one where you can’t even be anonymous without rubbing elbows with child predators. There have been secretive child predators ever since statutory rape was invented. The reason that you didn't have to "rub elbows" with them is because our governments hadn't begun systematically closing off all avenues for anonymity other than the one that they built and maintain for their own spying. If there's only one way to be anonymous, you get to "rub elbows" with everyone who needs to be anonymous for any reason. It has nothing to do with child porn or crypto. Neither were responsible for the size of the distributed files kept on each of us to grow in orders of magnitude. Speaking of "maps at our fingertips," good luck finding one that doesn't result in a record of the lookup and any GPS data submitted with it being inserted into a half-dozen databases, all freely accessible by the government, or by anybody buying in bulk.

colanderman 3y ago
> good luck finding one that doesn't result in a record of the lookup and any GPS data submitted with it being inserted into a half-dozen databases My handheld non-networked GPS unit with map tiles downloaded in bulk from OpenStreetMaps meets this criteria. Not very obscure.
nobody9999 3y ago
>Speaking of "maps at our fingertips," good luck finding one that doesn't result in a record of the lookup and any GPS data submitted with it being inserted into a half-dozen databases, all freely accessible by the government, or by anybody buying in bulk. Et voila! Maps at your fingertips[0] with no logging/tracking. It's amazing what those ancient (ca. 1995) humans could do. Perhaps they had help from aliens -- as we couldn't possibly do any of that stuff by ourselves. /s [0] https://wwp.randmcnally.com/product/rand-mcnally-road-atlas https://wwp.randmcnally.com/product/rand-mcnally-road-atlas
johnnyanmac 3y ago
>There have been secretive child predators ever since statutory rape was invented. Sure, emphasis on secretive. I'd hope that 'secretive' on the internet would mean more secretive than mistyping a query on a popular site's search engine. Or simply wandering into a linked, public website. But alas.

colanderman 3y ago

> good luck finding one that doesn't result in a record of the lookup and any GPS data submitted with it being inserted into a half-dozen databases My handheld non-networked GPS unit with map tiles downloaded in bulk from OpenStreetMaps meets this criteria. Not very obscure.

nobody9999 3y ago

>Speaking of "maps at our fingertips," good luck finding one that doesn't result in a record of the lookup and any GPS data submitted with it being inserted into a half-dozen databases, all freely accessible by the government, or by anybody buying in bulk. Et voila! Maps at your fingertips[0] with no logging/tracking. It's amazing what those ancient (ca. 1995) humans could do. Perhaps they had help from aliens -- as we couldn't possibly do any of that stuff by ourselves. /s [0] https://wwp.randmcnally.com/product/rand-mcnally-road-atlas https://wwp.randmcnally.com/product/rand-mcnally-road-atlas

johnnyanmac 3y ago

>There have been secretive child predators ever since statutory rape was invented. Sure, emphasis on secretive. I'd hope that 'secretive' on the internet would mean more secretive than mistyping a query on a popular site's search engine. Or simply wandering into a linked, public website. But alas.