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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday May 21 2022, @09:45AM (3 children)
In the past people have threatened to inform the FBI, or local LE, or whatever. As far as I know it hasn't happened.
You also claim that "we all know who Runaway is". But if you have all this information why haven't YOU done anything about it? You are content to try to get others to do what you are too frightened to do yourself. So perhaps it is now time for you to put up or shut up, but we all know you will continue on here to try to incite others because you either haven't got all the information that you claim to have or you are just a coward.
You think you are untraceable - but recall when you first joined the site? You, like many others, were not so circumspect with your personal information then. The rush to anonymity and the use of VPNs hadn't really started on this site. The evidence you claim to have is in our database, and you would leave yourself vulnerable to the FBI or LE having your information too. Many people have made threats of violence in the past. Some of our community have supported such threats either in comments or by moderation. I hope that they have also considered the consequences of what you are suggesting. If a judge demands that we hand over the database contents it will be all of the database contents - not just the bits that you think somebody should take a look at.
Some people have suggested that we should all go out and 'punch a Nazi in the face'. Isn't that an incitement to violence too? We have plenty of rejected submissions containing similar material from 2016 onwards - the majority from named community members. No denying who sent them is there? And we must not forget the doxing evidence that would also be revealed.
If your defence is that you are exercising your right to freedom of speech - then surely that defence can be applied to everybody, not just those who share your own extreme views.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21 2022, @04:46PM
While the basic point of ideological consistency regarding free speech is valid you mostly just express your complete inability to distinguish between violent rhetoric like "punch a nazi" and terrorist rhetoric like "50 million dead progressives" and other murderous comments. Additionally, your attempt to frighten with consequences for others should the FBI investigate is VERY troubling as to the type of person you are. If you were my boss I'd quit.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 22 2022, @07:17AM (1 child)
Runaway/janrinok do not seem to be aware that they are under the jurisdiction of EU law. janrinok's threats are toothless, and pointless? So, SN has kept IP addresses from the very beginning, despite all claims to the contrar? Nice to know, but a bit too late. And, who is this you are talking to, janrinok? The White Whale? Whose identity are you threatening to expose? And you propose to connect early users to current ACs? For criminal prosecution? Go have butt-sex with Runaway, for that one. I am not aristarchus, I have never been aristarchus, but still I challenge you to support the original values of SoylentNews, and not to fall back to your British Military Conditioning, Seargent Major! Marching Up and Down the Square! [youtube.com]
EU law. ICC. Serious shit, not American bullshit.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday May 22 2022, @09:50AM
Runaway is an American - he is not under EU jurisdiction. The site is registered in Delaware, USA, also not EU jurisdiction.
I am under EU jurisdiction which is why it is not my problem to inform US law enforcement that an unidentified user of our site wishes to accuse another user of posing a non-credible terrorist threat. How would anyone realistically kill 50 million people? Are nuclear weapons that freely available in the USA?
I have not threatened to expose any identify - reading comprehension fail. I've pointed out that any compromise of the database would reveal everybody's personal information and activity on the site.
I have not said that I am addressing any particular user. What makes you think that I believe you to be somebody else?
We have such a small number of ACs connecting to the site when compared with most internet sites and most of them pick IPs which tend to be unique to them. Some choose VPNs in obscure places. How many other connections do we get from those VPNs? None - their IP is unique. Some change IPs within the same VPN - the subnet hash remains unchanged and unique. Even within the US there are very few collisions between IP addresses. The best bet for ACs would be to connect from the SAME IP address or via TOR then we cannot tell ACs apart. But apparently not many people seem to have thought of that.
We don't care who you are or where you are. We simply don't want to know. We just need to know where to return each HTTP request that you make - just like every other site on the internet. In your own particular case, your IPs are unique - they change regularly but no-one else on this site ever uses them. We don't store them or save them. We save hashes of them which would require a rainbow table to decode them. Do you know how big a rainbow table would be for IP4 and IP6 addresses? It would be impossibly huge and take billions of years to create.