Re:Kind of Screwed (2011)
by mirimir on Monday March 04, 2019 @12:38AM
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If he'd created an anonymous persona for his pixel artwork, Maisel would have been left pounding sand. So if there's no reason to link stuff to your meatspace identity, why risk it?
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Re:Kind of Screwed (2011)
by shrimp_emoji on Monday March 04, 2019 @01:00AM
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This. But in a softcore version of the same way that you shouldn't be using your real name while advocating for gay rights in Saudi Arabia: it's a solution eliding a larger problem.
Back in the day, when I was discovering Usenet, it was common advice. But of course, tools for ~anonymity were primitive then. No Tor. No VPNs. Remailers were about it.
How do you mean exactly, can you explain pls? If I create a fake person with Gmail account and tumblr blog, this fake persona posts the artwork, I use it (crediting the fake persona), they can't sue me. But they can problably force me to take down the image anyway?
> ... I use it (crediting the fake persona) ...
No. There is no "I use it". Only the fake persona does.
> But they can problably force me to take down the image anyway?
If you created an anonymous Tor onion site, they'd have a hard time forcing you. But of course, then it's less accessible. So you might just use hosting that caters to spammers and worse.