Regarding privacy and anonymity on X:
Elon has
previously stated that:
"This platform will do whatever it takes to protect the rights of users to remain anonymous, as they would otherwise face persecution from employers (as many have) or risk of physical harm."
Over 25% of X users are from Europe, the largest demographic outside America. Revealing a user's location is inherently malicious due to tyrannous European laws, which are well known and often discussed by Elon himself (see
these posts, for example). Furthermore, European leftists have international networks dedicated to exposing the identities of anonymous patriots.
Even if a user's location is displayed as "Europe" (the current "opt-out" solution) rather than a specific country, many European governments would readily file IP subpoenas based on flimsy pretexts. People are jailed in Germany merely for insulting others online, and not even in a "racist" way; a man was recently jailed for calling bureaucrats "parasites" who leech taxpayer money.
The EU's Digital Services Act threatens companies with a fine of up to 6% of their entire global annual revenue if they refuse to comply with identity probes, and X retardedly distinguishes between EU countries and non-EU countries when the location tag is set to "continent" rather than "country" mode.
The location-doxing feature also displays a warning if users are connected via VPN, and it seems likely that VPN users will be algorithmically punished via account deboosting. Non-"verified" X accounts (i.e. those who have not submitted their bank account and passport/identity details to the platform) are already deboosted relative to "verified" blue check accounts.
X TOS states that they can reveal private user information if it is deemed "reasonably necessary" to protect safety, platform integrity, or prevent spam/abuse.
"We use information we collect to provide for the safety and security of our users, our products, services, and your account. This includes... authenticating your account, and defending against fraud, unauthorized use, and illegal activity."
Is the blanket, platform-wide doxing of every single user "reasonably necessary" to achieve these aims? I don't believe it is.
There is a concerted push to completely de-anonymize the internet and implement planetwide "digital identity" (linked to your bank account, passport, etc.), and this terrible policy brings us one step closer.
An American equivalent of the EU's Digital Services Act and UK's Online Safety Act was
reintroduced to Congress May 2025. If passed, the
Kids Online Safety Act will lead to the sort of digital tyranny we see in Europe today. Americans are sleepwalking into a censorious nightmare and right-wing X users have been baited into throwing away their privacy by overblown rumors of "Indian engagement farmers" hiding around every corner.
Frankly, if you are too dumb to recognize that an Israel-loving, Pakistan-hating account with an AI-generated White female avatar is likely an Indian male, then you shouldn't be using the internet, you should be locked in a padded cell for your own safety.