alt Hacker NewsWhen it comes to forcing platforms outside of Greece to comply with this, those platforms will just close their service down to Greece.
If you want to talk about the concept itself of removing anonymity: on HN the impact would not be huge, a lot of us are not really anonymous with links to personal sites in our profiles. Reddit is a different beast entirely.
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kingnothing • today at 4:54 PM
Or they'll leave their services open to Greece. They don't have a physical presence there and aren't subject to their laws.
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I do wonder how easy it is to de-anonymise a typical reddit user based on topics, ways of writing, time of writing etc. throw into some form of pattern recognition and see if it links up with other reddit accounts, accounts on forums, things like Facebook etc.
Throw in information Reddit has (ip addresses, user agents etc) and it’s no doubt a certainty.