• albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    One interesting aspect of the US is that, for some reason, they have a lot of fake “background check” websites that will just outright doxx you if they can find and compile information on you online. It gets worse if you have some legal procedure going on (being sued, for example), in which case they can have access to your address and phone number, and may even list a small network of family and acquaintances if they’re named in the procedure.

    You can try this out yourself, just find some random Yankee civilian with a less common full name (Wikipedia has a ton of abandoned pages with that from editors who used to be teenagers), and literally just google it in quotes for verbatim search. You’ll probably have results from usaofficial.com or other trash like that.

    I noticed how rampant this was when Florida passed a law banning foreign nationals or companies from some countries (including China) from buying property. But it gets worse because on a hearing on this bill, about a hundred of civilians who appeared to complain had their name and contact information disclosed by the Florida government here (it’s IP blocked unless you’re from an Anglo country). It was not hard to find more personal information from a random sample of people I choose from there. So in effect, you will be banned from owning a home, and if you complain you’ll be doxxed too for the audacity.

    But fear not! The market has a solution, and it is only 10 dollars a month, for the rest of your life!

    So yeah, this is a feature of their society.