megolodan

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   by megolodan 4mo ago

   Depends if they have a judge in mind to tip the scales
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   by megolodan 8mo ago

   Hmm consider an established social network which sees lots of bad actor activity, these folks will likely be sharing IP's on these residential network severly damaging their reputation. You should only see one user-id per MAC / IP
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   by megolodan 8mo ago

   You're not wrong that its easy to get relatively obscure IP addresses cheaply, however youll be sharing them with lots of folks potentially damaging reputation. At scale, say P2P-book becomes the largest social networking site, all bad
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   by megolodan 8mo ago

   compiling an open source C project isn't time consuming?
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   by megolodan 8mo ago

   For almost all of human history information has been centralized among a small actors, for some time period we had a large independent press but those days are gone. Everyone has a stake in getting accurate information, and therefore they h
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   by megolodan 8mo ago

   Beyond federated systems, P2P systems seem to have a strong advantage here in identifying bad actors. Ranking posts/comments by the exponential of inverse IPAddress-post-frequency would solve bad actors posting behind VPNs/proxies
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   by megolodan 8mo ago

   I used to think that most engineers had strong ethics, but It seems thats not the case. I wonder if it is widespread knowledge internally or if just the select few know.