We are _all_ at risk.

That doesn’t mean we should stay home. But it also doesn’t mean we should pretend that showing up in numbers somehow makes us safely anonymous.

I’m not sure I agree re: “impossible.”

The modern panopticon + security state is more than capable of of surveilling 10s (if not 100s) of millions of people in real-time, correlating their personal data across dozens of DBs, and tagging them for harassment and prosecution.

“I have nothing to hide” implies a belief in the rule of law protecting e.g. political speech. The current regime obviously, demonstrably does not care about those rules or norms.

Ergo, any protest activity at all is risky in a way it wasn’t a decade ago.

My concern is that our threat models haven’t been updated to consider a federal gov that’s 100% unconcerned with judicial oversight or due process.

At this point, “your phone was logged at a protest and we have video of someone who looks like you” is enough pretense for deportation or jail time.

My current theory is that a robust course of FP inoculation early in life leads to a strong resistance to Go ;)