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wellpast on April 19, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet an...

To preserve the anonymity of the source of my own ideas, I might write every tweet/post like so:

“A friend of mine says, ‘Woke politics are getting absurd.’”

I wonder if this would be violation of the law...

ficklepickle on April 19, 2019 | [–]

That reminds me of SWIM [0] from the drugs forums back in the day

[0] Someone Who Isn't Me. I believe it was an attempt to avoid admitting to illegal things. It was mandatory to use SWIM instead of the first-person on some forums.

keepmesmall on April 19, 2019 | [–]

I'm not sure "I was raised not to rat on friends" holds up in court.

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