I have made it clear in the past and will repeat it now. If you use a proxy server, you will get the boot. In the 15 years this blog has been in existence, I have had nothing but trouble with people using this technology. For some reason, using it brings out the worst in people. I have no idea why they bother since a regular IP address will not help me track you down in order to punch you in the nose. An IP address is as confidential as an unlisted telephone number.
In many blogs, you need a legitimate email address to post comments. WordPress.com does not allow this and it doesn’t pay to upgrade my blog to take advantage of it. Frankly, I don’t even care if you use some bullshit name and email address like “Janet Avery”. And I even care less if you come here to abuse me for living on the upper east side of Manhattan or whatever sick obsession you have. I am as thick-skinned as a rhinoceros. Just don’t USE A FUCKING PROXY SERVER.
Here, btw, is the report on the proxy IP address this jackass was using:
Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist 
People use VPNs to protect themselves when using non-secure WiFi, such as exists at Starbucks or in the subway. More people are using them every day. As you say, it makes no difference when compared to a non-proxy IP address when it comes to you hunting down the commenter, but it makes a lot of difference to the user whose personal information is compromised on a non-secure server, let alone people who read your blog in places like North Korea.
Also, it’s “heads up”, not “head’s up”.
Comment by Bob Shiksa — February 15, 2020 @ 11:36 pm
You don’t have a fucking clue, do you? “Janet Avery” shows up and begins making totally stupid comments, half of which are apolitical slurs. There’s a pattern here, even if you can’t see it. Maybe you’d have more credibility if you showed up here making some other point than trying to “expose” me.
Comment by louisproyect — February 16, 2020 @ 1:53 am
The pattern is that Louis deletes critical comments that get at the core of why his politics are so terrible.
Comment by Scott Yves — February 17, 2020 @ 8:23 am
This fucking idiot Scott Yves has the balls to use a proxy address. No matter. I’ll let him have his last say…
Comment by louisproyect — February 17, 2020 @ 2:49 pm