Whilst there are definitely people who use other people and their ip's, technology and identities as 'human shields', the various brackets are supposed to be layers of a shield formed by, from and for the person in the middle, certainly not other people as some cowards actively do on a daily basis.

You're not projecting your interpretation based on your own activities are you? lol
It's not a very good joke if you are. I'd get a new clown to entertain me if you were mine.