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Woah! Thanks. Can you explain about why CI is against VPN usage?

When people are banned and they just can't bear the separation, they turn to VPNs to sign up again. The only way to slow down troublemakers is to ban the IP addresses they use to sign up for new accounts.

When people are banned and they just can't bear the separation, they turn to VPNs to sign up again. The only way to slow down troublemakers is to ban the IP addresses they use to sign up for new accounts.

Hopefully I am not in that category!  Security professionals say that VPN's are smart for everyone to use always.

If I have been banned for violation here, can this forum have the courtesy of posting specifically what I did wrong?

Security professionals say that VPN's are smart for everyone to use always.

I'm a software engineer, and I am well educated in networking, etc.

I never use a VPN. There is no reason to use VPNs "always". The only reason to wear a mask is to hide your identity. What do you have to hide?

Wearing a ski mask throughout the day as you go about your business does NOT protect you from anything. You could still get robbed, attacked, shot, etc. The only thing wearing a ski mask does is HIDE YOUR IDENTITY. Again, why hide your identity, if you're not up to no good?

Some people use VPNs in the hopes of hiding their browsing activity from the government or some such nonsense. The gov't already knows everything it needs to know about you. Either you don't matter as much as you think you do (you're not the main character, you're just an "extra" in the background) or they have everything they need already and haven't chosen to "act" for whatever reason.

But either way, using a VPN changes nothing. Those VPNs can all be subpoena'd to tell the court who used IP address 34.35.225.5 at 6:05 PM on 12/9/25. Then they get your identity/real IP address, which they can use to track you down.
Real security professionals know this. VPNs are a palliative, a placebo. They are an ILLUSION of anonymity, of invincibility.

Those VPNs require payment from you, and some kind of ID. Otherwise, actual terrorists (if they even exist) could use VPNs and be completely safe from surveillance from 3 letter agencies. You really think that loophole exists? My sweet summer child!