I think you're doing everything right. I assume that moving to confidentiality-friendly platforms to chat about sensitive topics also implies moving away from w

I think you're doing everything right. I assume that moving to confidentiality-friendly platforms to chat about sensitive topics also implies moving away from wide-area social media in general, and deleting your accounts — if not, that's a step you should take too. When you get off a platform to which you've contributed anything with personal opinions in it, you should obfuscate whatever you've written there before deleting it. Meaning, fill the text box with garbage, then delete it, then delete your account. There used to be a plugin that let you do this automatically on Reddit, I don't know if there still is, but it wouldn't be too hard to script either. Hypocritically on my part, HN does not support editing or deleting your old content. It's hard to avoid leaving any trace of yourself online; people want to talk to each other. I try to get around this by rotating user accounts, but I'm sure it's not enough. Really, none of it is really going to be enough when it actually happens, and we should just be ready for that. The only thing I can think of that would prevent a social credit system from being instituted is if people in power decided it was in their own best interest not to allow such a system. I suppose the ways to do that would either be to pay them more than other lobbyists, or to make it in their own best interest, i.e. let them know the danger it poses to us is also a danger to them. Given that, I wonder if, paradoxically, the whole cancel culture business is acting as a prophylactic against a social credit system, in that it makes legislators feel less invulnerable.