He claims is non-logging. Toward your point, of course VPN just moves the point of presence relative to the other end, away from the ISP. Changes not much else. In the wrong hands makes it much easier to do man-in-the-middle than trying to solicit the ISP, or if you were someone who would not be able to solicit the ISP's help. If you use it religiously, like one account, could further help someone understand all of your own locations for all the places you physically connect from, all collected in one place, that even the ISPs each would not have access by themselves. I think its weird that after being so serious about it, the he said he doesn't check IPs when checking down vote logs, and at same time gave out VPN which should make it easier to look like two different people. Not checking IPs means he has the least visibility into the greatest swath of who is most purposefully being inorganic, and doesn't know who is gaming the system. For the record I was not banned, and I did not start posting here because of the recent debacle. It did remind me of here, and I went to go look, and decided to try it. I need to minimize the batches of loony toons in my life, so I can focus on other things I have going on, and to do so in a better emotional place. ---- Edit: Just wanted to be clear that I'm not against VPNs. VPNs can be extremely useful or even necessary, but its important to understand the tradeoffs. If you don't want your own single ISP, or their down stream providers, to be able to identify or see anything, usually because you can be identified by your ISP account info, then its great. But for independent VPN providers for surfing the web etc... you are still just as susceptible from VPN onward and its downstream providers, from the same reasons. Keep in mind, authorities roll through VPN providers tracking back to ISPs routinely.