I started my career reporting on how people were using the Internet in dictatorships, and if there's one BIG thing I learned from talking to a bunch of people who literally had served jail time for political blogging, it was "choose your battles wisely, and don't say dumb things in dumb places."
if there is one survival skill I would REALLY like everyone opposed to the fascist GOP to learn right now, it's "do not say things on the public internet that will provide authorities with useful pretenses for coming after you."
Abso-fucking-lutely right.
(Different country, but...) When I was a kid in a socialist family, my parents would always say "Do not get tattoos when you're old enough. You need to have no identifiable physical characteristics". It comes from the same place: do not make yourself a target.
I've seen pictures on the internet with blurred faces and crystal clear tattoos. Some people don't realize that while face recognition software was being developed, the authorities were developing tattoo recognition s/w. It progressed much more quickly because the problem is so simple.
