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I agree. Complete anonymity is bullshit. Internet should be pseudoanonymous. I mean, users should have static IP and thats it. Getting additional information about IP should be limited to law enforcement gov organizations (crime fighting).

Users should build they reputation on internet. If someone is asshole, then ok, expect to be banned on most places. Right now people do NOT care, because they are quite anonymous.

As for all other points he mentions, they are absolutly bad for Internet. He specified somethink more like a TOR (with he mentions) with is ok. Thats the point, maybe its time to treat internet more like a transport network and build small Internets on top of it. Infra is already there, there are shitload of VPN providers so people are kinda aware of that layer.

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> Getting additional information about IP should be limited to law enforcement gov organizations (crime fighting).

How would that work in practice? Wouldn't companies like Google and Facebook still have so much user data as to effectively know everything they need about user IPs?

> Users should build they reputation on internet. If someone is asshole, then ok, expect to be banned on most places. Right now people do NOT care, because they are quite anonymous.

Combined with legal restrictions on IPs, how would this work? We would need some central authority for universal identity. If we look to the government there as well they'd have an easy path to censor whomever they want online.

They only know more because people are careless, providing them all the data. That is out of the scope. If you are careless, bad things can happen.

As for censorship, thet already can do it easy. Block domain for example of site when you publish you. Just try it yourself, setup up VPS w/ web that is very out of align with your gov. :)

> They only know more because people are careless, providing them all the data. That is out of the scope. If you are careless, bad things can happen.

Anyone seriously interested in not providing any data likely isn't using the internet at all though they're already fine regardless of IP tracking. There are very few types of online service that don't require some kind of data to be useful, whether its a user login, email address, or search queries.

> As for censorship, thet already can do it easy. Block domain for example of site when you publish you. Just try it yourself, setup up VPS w/ web that is very out of align with your gov. :)

That's a single point of attack though. The government can censor my website by forcing infrastructure companies to block it. Unless I misunderstood your earlier message though, a central authority gate keeping IP data would almost certainly lead to a single entity having the power to block me from the internet entirely.

If you have better solution. I am all ears.

I am myself not interested in providing any data to those companies and I am still using Internet. Yeah, I am avoid FAANG and related sites tho. Not that I am feeling Im loosing anything importand really...

> information about IP should be limited to law enforcement gov organizations (crime fighting).

AND, the limits on gov use should be strict and gov officials should be accountable for misuse. Without these, then the rest is for nothing.

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