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Because you're supposed to be responsible for what you publish? Or as quoted in the article itself:

> For those that say this is a hit to privacy: this operates the same way it would if you were buying property anywhere else. Yes, it's digital property, but you should have to be responsible for that permissive SPF record allowing relay of malware spam in the same way you have to be responsive when there's a gas leak on physical property.

In any case, self hosting a blog seems like a pretty weird step if what you're after is good anonymity.



>In any case, self hosting a blog seems like a pretty weird step if what you're after is good anonymity.

I'm not after anonymity, I just don't want my address and phone number to be easily available to every nutcase out there.


There is a world of difference between being Satoshi level of anonymous and being an open book for anyone on planet earth to try to SWAT.




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