Biggest thing I missed is that I don't live in the US.
Even if I lived in the US, and the times I visited, I'm still disregarding most of the recommendations. It feels more like these people are making political statements of what should be and recruiting me and other viewers to help move towards that ideal.
Especially they want regular citizens to do this shit so that everyone has plausible deniability. The issue is that I strictly want to differentiate myself from criminals, in my experience any of these movements or technologies like Tor, cryptocurrency, pool me with people doing really bad shit.
If I'm in the US with a visa, and someone asks for my ID, I will show it to them, I will not shield illegal immigrants by refusing to show my visa. I will no longer do that in my country either, I literally thought "what if a Venezuelan was walking down these streets and the police stopped them, I must shield them by not revealing my identity" Fuck that, not my problem, here's my ID, officer.
Similarly if police ask me what I'm doing at 2 am, I will now tell them that I was working and there was an incident with the server at 2 am. I will no longer shield criminals that may be up to no good at 2 am in my neighbourhood, i will make the cop's job easy.
If my bank asks me for documentation of my business I will give it to them. If my ISP wants to see what servers I'm contacting for my porn, they may check my DNS requests and see that it's not a child pornography distributor. That's fine.
It's ok, take your tinfoil hats on. Use your judgment instead of listening to online extremists with an agenda. (Getting regular people to act like criminals so that criminals associations and behaviours can appear as legitimate)
Even if I lived in the US, and the times I visited, I'm still disregarding most of the recommendations. It feels more like these people are making political statements of what should be and recruiting me and other viewers to help move towards that ideal.
Especially they want regular citizens to do this shit so that everyone has plausible deniability. The issue is that I strictly want to differentiate myself from criminals, in my experience any of these movements or technologies like Tor, cryptocurrency, pool me with people doing really bad shit.
If I'm in the US with a visa, and someone asks for my ID, I will show it to them, I will not shield illegal immigrants by refusing to show my visa. I will no longer do that in my country either, I literally thought "what if a Venezuelan was walking down these streets and the police stopped them, I must shield them by not revealing my identity" Fuck that, not my problem, here's my ID, officer.
Similarly if police ask me what I'm doing at 2 am, I will now tell them that I was working and there was an incident with the server at 2 am. I will no longer shield criminals that may be up to no good at 2 am in my neighbourhood, i will make the cop's job easy.
If my bank asks me for documentation of my business I will give it to them. If my ISP wants to see what servers I'm contacting for my porn, they may check my DNS requests and see that it's not a child pornography distributor. That's fine.
It's ok, take your tinfoil hats on. Use your judgment instead of listening to online extremists with an agenda. (Getting regular people to act like criminals so that criminals associations and behaviours can appear as legitimate)