Why do you hide yourself?

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I'm pretty open on this forum---to the point where I've revealed the part of Queens I live in.

But.....I never berate a person for "hiding" his/her self. There are creeps out there who seek to do harm to others in various ways. The more information a "target" reveals, the more harm the creep can do.

I recommend, for example, that if one lives in a small village, that one doesn't reveal the village until one trusts someone.

My section of Queens is a very big area with around 50,000 people lviing in it. Queens itself has about 2.5 miliion people.

Both criminals and Government agencies have programmes which trawl social media and other platforms all the time for key words. If found they can surveil all your actions, locations, communications, and so on. Everything. The internet is one of the Government's main hunting grounds.

Just this week some member here on another subforum claimed to have committed torture, murder (?) and grievous bodily harm in public places to strangers who were judged by her to be abusers. Perhaps it was a joke, however the surveillance agencies don't do jokes, they see red flags. And if it was a joke, it was in execrable taste. If those events are real, then the poster was also risking bringing negative attention to Wrong Planet and the possibility of others here being smeared by the media.

OP, if you choose to take a religious view that refusing to practice net safety is the moral highground for you, and you don't care how much surveillance or crime you may attract, that's your business. To advocate this to other people is risky, and adds nothing useful here.

Judge not.
It's not your place.