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The substantive difference is what, though? A lawyer has to charge another billable hour to hit your other 5 providers? To the kind of adversary you're worried about, those resources are nothing.



>A lawyer has to charge another billable hour to hit your other 5 providers?

Sure but first, they would have to actually find out who those providers are. Without a central service like Google tracking everything you do online, it would be extremely hard to link 5 different email accounts to one person and then to forum user MMARules22 who has been posting on an anti-GMO forum. Google also makes it easier for people to subpoena private information in a lawsuit and then leak potentially embarrassing items to the media.


If all those providers are not in the same jurisdiction it might actually be quite a tall barrier.


Not if they want you bad enough. Examples: Assange, Dotcom.

And that's assuming perfectly legal might is all you're worrying about...




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