Where do you draw the line between privacy and speaking out?

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stallman_was_right
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Hello Trisquel community,

This question has been bothering me for a few weeks now. I greatly value my freedom and privacy, and recognize the importance of speaking out against injustice to defend freedom. Staying quiet all the time will not bring about any social change, we must speak out to some extent.

However, how do you balance speaking out against injustice with a desire for privacy? I certainly don't want the government to know the things I do online, however innocuous. It's not because I have something to hide, but because it is none of the government's business what I am doing on my computer. The problem is that speaking out requires giving up one's privacy to some extent.

For example, going and publicly campaigning for privacy/freedom can result in my privacy being destroyed. Or even creating a social media account to reach out to other free software/privacy advocates would result in Twitter/Facebook performing mass surveillance on me.

Putting out all our opinions on social media can be dangerous in the future, but I can also see the value of social media in reaching out to many people. Where do you guys draw the line? What is your balance?

onpon4
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Joined: 05/30/2012

I'm not sure why you seem to think that you have to strike a "balance". You can voice an opinion anonymously; just go through Tor and use a dedicated pseudonym that only connects to the Internet that way and do not connect it in any way to any of your other pseudonyms.

By the way, unless you're an actual whistleblower (leaking actual information), the United States government would find it impossible to legally do anything to you. The worst that would happen is a propaganda campaign aimed at painting you as a conspiracy theorist.

Mangy Dog

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Joined: 03/15/2015

As Opon4 says use Tor + hidden services

Some good advice in
Network Forensics Evasion: How to Exit the Matrix
http://billstclair.com/matrix/index.html

Use gnupg and deposit "documents" at
https://cryptome.org/
or Wikileaks of course..
(as an exemple)

Do not give a traceback to any bit of info that can reveal your IP, ISP, identity , your location, your country, your culture etc..

https://www.anonbox.net/