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"I use a VPN!" Your ISP can see when you initially connect to a VPN. The VPN company will comply with a subpoena.

"My socials don't have my real name!" What about the email to register that social? What about your wifi provider? They provide the IP address from which you're frequently logging in. Don't they have your information?

Your cell carrier will comply with a subpoena.

You ISP will comply with a subpoena.

So will Google, Apple, Yahoo, Meta, Tumblr, Twitter, you name it. None of them will fight the government on behalf of a random person they don't care about.

This is why fighting for online privacy laws, real actual privacy laws, is so important. It's why using services with end-to-end encryption is so important. It's why if you don't want any chance of law enforcement to know about something, you cannot post about it online in any way.

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DEFE 24/1983/1. THE “SOLWAY SPACEMAN” PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY JIM TEMPLETON IN CUMBRIA, MAY 1964.

One of the most mysterious images in the MoD files is a color photograph of a little girl, holding a bunch of flowers as a space-suited figure looms behind her head. The photograph was taken by a Carlisle fireman, Jim Templeton, of his five-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, on a family day out in May 1964. Jim and his family saw nothing unusual at the time, as they enjoyed the wild scenery of Burgh Marsh, in northern Cumbria. But when he collected the processed film the shop assistant said, “That’s a marvelous photograph, but it’s rather spoilt by the big man behind her!” When Jim took a closer look he was amazed to find that on one of the prints, standing just behind his daughter’s head, was a large figure dressed like an astronaut in a white suit with a dark visor. Jim sent the negatives for scrutiny to Kodak and the Cumbrian police. Both said the image had not been tampered with. After the story was featured in the Cumberland News, Jim’s photograph was republished in newspapers as far away as Australia. Hundreds of letters arrived from across the world at the Templeton household, many offering esoteric explanations for the “Solway Spaceman.” Jim was also visited by two mysterious men dressed in black suits and bowler hats, who drove a brand new black Jaguar and asked to see where the photograph was taken. They referred to each other by numbers and said they were from “the Ministry.” But the surviving RAF and MoD files that mention the “Solway Spaceman” do not provide any clues to the identity of the strange figure in the photograph. Over the years, the case became a cause célèbres in UFOlogy and the image has been featured in many TV programs, books, and articles. Jim died in 2011 at the age of ninety-one with the mystery unsolved. His last words on the subject were “It is up to you to draw your own conclusions. I am sure someone out there knows what it was and where it was from.”

Jesus Lastra - Untitled - 28/07/2023