Not sure why being anon is a bad thing? I wrote this the other day about anonymity and why it's important, especially in public discourse. We sadly seem to be going in the wrong direction like always in the long march to the Orwellian dystopia.
quotingAnonymity is very important, especially now when the world is going in the opposite direction of having to be "verified" and your identity defines if your classified as an "expert" or not.
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Sometimes anonymity is needed to articulate information that you otherwise wouldn't want tied to your actual identity. Not for fear of not standing up for what you believe in, but rather formulating ideas in a non-biased manner without attaching a label to yourself and society putting you in a box because of prior statements made, completely discarding your opinion and ideas based on past statements. As humans we all do this and judge others track records based on if prior information is available. With the internet we have solved/hacked this issue regarding public discourse and can now formulate ideas based on merit and logic without any sort of preconceptions of the person and the best ideas win out without any sort of bias
Secondly, their is a sliding scale of oppression around the world between soft and hard oppression and the punishment varies, but can both equally be bad from a reputational and personal security standpoint.
Being anon allows you to freely formulate ideas in the public space of the internet without the fear of reprisal. You are entitled to get things wrong and for others to poke holes in your ideas if they are flawed, to help further getting to the truth. Some of the greatest ideas, thoughts and intellectual discourse have been created by anonymous or pseudo-anonymous people, Satoshi created Bitcoin for instance, various nameless Twitter, Nostr, BBS forum posters have articulated some really interesting ideas.
Many ideas from the internet underground were formulated by anonymous people that eventually found their way up to the mainstream consciousness.
So it's very important to have anonymity continue in our world so to advance and try to find the best solutions to problems and to uncover the truth.