While your advice is generally sound, I'm concerned about the implied exhortation to self-censorship of controversial, but legitimate, views that it carries wit

While your advice is generally sound, I'm concerned about the implied exhortation to self-censorship of controversial, but legitimate, views that it carries with it. Really, 20 years from now, if they're doing those kinds of background checks, will the checker care more that the checkee trolled some RIP group, or espoused support for Wikileaks? Will they care more that the checkee called someone "a fucking retard" on the comments of a blog post, or that they wrote a post arguing in favor of fighting back against cops who attack citizens? Ultimately, the obnoxious-but-innocuous comments are just noise; it's the political views that run counter to the mainstream that will raise the most flags, and which require the most freedom from censorship, self- or otherwise.