Yeah seeing these downvoats is frustrating. He isn't lying or misrepresenting anything.

Also there are alternatives but from my understanding they're rather expensive. Still though, the question he asked is more about the point than the specifics? It seems a bit ironic, and considering people's general lack of understanding how these things work, it's like when they brought up the picture of your middle finger I sort of cringed. I wonder how many people will unknowingly doxx themselves with exif data. Even just having a skin color to associate with all the other bits of data they can glean from stuff we say -- and most of that analytics comes from algorithms not spooks reading over our posts, it doesn't take being singled out to get targeted by this, it's why they call it a drag net. All of us have profiles made up of information about our psychology and beliefs, threat assessment, etc etc. Some of us probably have several profiles that they haven't tied together yet from a lack of info, like those of us who use multiple accounts and take other precautions.

We say a lot about our selves when we interact online. What we focus on. What we choose to respond to. How we respond. Our semantics. They're all identifiers and they can all be used to build a psychological profile of us.

But yeah let's also give them our specific skin tone and exif data -- and I'm not even saying there's something sinister going on at Voat, or PIA, but if you're security oriented and want a VPN for that reason all of this just seems silly to me.

And specifically, was he wrong about the VPN thing? No. Was he lying about the interactions with Putt? No.

Yet look at all those downvoats. People come out of the woodwork to defend Putt. Voats reaction to people criticizing him isn't anywhere close to friendly. Meanwhile at the end of the day the user known as Putt could be anyone, and any number of people. We have no idea what's going on behind the curtains, so when people make a post like buddy did here without any lies or misrepresentation and everyone's immediate reaction is to downvoat and attack them it's genuinely fucking weird for me.

I never see people get that many downvoats for speaking the truth on Voat.

Maybe he was concerned that Putt wouldn't like the way he was "communicating" and didn't want Putt to reconsider their friend status like he did with Fast in those messages?

I mean yeah on a website like this, depending on what you say I can entirely understand not wanting to get on the bad side of the website owner.

Besides I've personally deleted accounts in the past after criticizing aspects of Voat because I was starting to get harassed and noticed odd behavior directed toward my account.

I guess we should all just stop being "fucking cowards" and just say everything we say on Voat in real life. We should just go up to our bosses and tell them about the JQ. I mean let's stay consistent, right?

People have all sorts of reasons for wanting anonymity, you're on a website that values and respects that; so why the double standards when it comes to this specific instance? Does him using an alt account change anything he said? Is anything he said misleading or false?