• SootySootySoot [any]@hexbear.net
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    3 hours ago

    How would this work? If they could work out you were masking your location, then… VPNs wouldn’t be a thing.

    Isn’t this the equivalent of making it a crime to lie about you doing crime? What does it possibly achieve?

    • red_giant [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      7 minutes ago

      IPv8 proposals end up making anonymity pretty difficult.

      And there are under-development systems to provide a method of your carrier disclosing information about you, so like your network packets would get some kind of tag added to them that can be used to query your rough location, age, and potentially other stuff like payment processing. Right now it’s opt-in, eg “do you want to verify you’re 18?”, but that will change as soon as it’s widespread.