The Digital Lives Of Others, by Good Citizen

SLL and Robert Gore are not anonymous, but there are certainly good arguments for online anonymity. From Good Citizen at thegoodcitizen.live:

To be or not to be an online Anon? Jordan Peterson, Andrew Tate, Gonzalo Lira, Richard Hanania, and Worldcoin Orbs.

Your digital life can and will be used against you. A treatise in defense of the essential rights of online Anons.


Answers to the question concerning online anonymity are often fraught with appeals to emotions, argued on behalf of one’s self-interested outcome, this piece and its author notwithstanding.

Those who have dispelled the protections of anonymity, with or without prior deliberation of the foreseeable consequences, want others to join in their short-sighted risk and sacrifice.

Often they have failed to recognize the clear merging of corporate tech companies with government surveillance agencies and the permanence of all the data (converted from psycho-social and physical human labor) they are extracting and collecting on all citizens.

The extent of this operation goes much deeper than mere geolocation positioning or the capture of attitudes and opinions online. This is total psycho-social-political profiling, not just to mold human behavior in the present moment but to move the digital swarm (the collective of online users that migrate to the popular views prepared in advance of major events) in one direction so that their actions and reactions can be anticipated for future outcomes.

When downloading and installing a new app on any device, users are defacto agreeing to be surveilled 24/7 by the corporation behind the application. With a data-centric system of technological incentivization, companies must scoop as much of the gold bytes and bits as they can to disrupt an industry and justify their valuation to investors and shareholders whose only important metric is this: How many millions of people are you spying on regularly and how much dirt do you have on them?

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