It just seems to create a huge vulnerability. It can be such a reveal. Show me someone's HN, Reddit and some other stuff they've been using, and the profile I c

It just seems to create a huge vulnerability. It can be such a reveal. Show me someone's HN, Reddit and some other stuff they've been using, and the profile I can assemble from these comments... you might as well just scream your secrets out into the world? And the technological means to link, gather and analyze such data will only improve. And cancel culture, political correctness, they won't be gone soon. At least not from the looks of it. Something I write today under a real name could bite me in 10 years and get me fired? Don't get me wrong, I'm not some fascist nut who wants to write his racist blog, but I've triggered some people immensely merely stating what I considered simple facts in a calm manner... Against a women's quota? Chauvinist pig. Against enforcing gender neutral language? Privileged white middle class gender-binary male hanging onto his power (whatever that is)! Against minimum wage? Of course you must be, neo-fascist shark! Stating gender differences are in part biological rather than socially constructed? You're not an expert of gender studies, how do you know, you inconsiderate unfeeling cold-hearted ... you get the picture. I can be free for a while under a moniker, until it seems to reveal too much and I ditch it. I can never state opinions freely under a real name, and don't know how some journalists and bloggers do it. Guess they have more confidence.