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Not just America, I assume this is pretty common for most countries' political discourse on Twitter. Reddit also needs to have a feature like this.
by leosanchez 11mo ago
Not just America, I assume this is pretty common for most countries' political discourse on Twitter.
Reddit also needs to have a feature like this.
- consumer451 11mo agoHere is one example: https://old.reddit.com/r/poland/comments/1p5cqcs/literally_every_second_antieu_antiukrainian_right/ https://old.reddit.com/r/poland/comments/1p5cqcs/literally_e...
- NietTim 11mo agoSeeing how reddit is moving in the opposite direction by doing things like allowing people to hide their submission histories, that seems highly unlikely.
- unethical_ban 11mo agoIf it becomes more common for a service to reveal the geography of a user, wouldn't these cyberwarfare farms stand up VPN servers? This is certainly useful as a one-time reveal since the attackers didn't think this data would leak, but now can't they prepare better?
- PaulKeeble 11mo agoVPN farms and using remote servers are all with a bit of effort detectable. It starts a new arms race but all it takes is to catch the account misplaced once on a change to then keep that history and expose the discrepancy forever. Its going to be quite difficult to get and maintain a genuine domestic IP that is unique per account and doesn't then get shut down often.
- _--__--__ 11mo agoEasy, you just ban all known vpn endpoints and cloud hosting provider IP ranges. 4chan figured all this out over a decade ago.
- consumer451 11mo agoInterestingly enough, Twitter is excellent at that. Maybe they even jump the gun. Ever since I noticed that when you register a decent domain, someone will instantly register a Twitter account with that name, I have started trying to preempt that. I accidentally clicked a Twitter link the other day, while apparently still logged in to an account. I was on a VPN at that moment. Instant suspension within 15 seconds. It was astonishing.