In an ideal world who I am should bear little significance on my thoughts and contributions. We do not, however, live in an ideal world. 

Humans are animals of hierarchy, it is simply how they work, so social standing is a much more important factor than the actual content of what someone says. A beloved president telling you how they are going to fix the economy is very different to your high on weed friend called Bob rattling on about the state being evil and leading us to economic collapse with no escape.

That being the case showing a profile picture and giving a detailed summary of my skills and social standing would make me more palatable and more attractive to prospective readers, yet I choose to not reveal anything. Though even with me not revealing anything you can through reading what I say, how I write, slowly puzzle together an identity. It's even possible to determine whether I was born with a penis or not using an algorithm. 

Despite this I choose to be anonymous, and so do a significant amount of people. My reason? Perhaps I'm a ex-Muslim in Saudi, a Nazi supporter in Britain or perhaps I'm just bull shitting completely and I'm actually your average wage slave called Bob who doesn't want to get fired for saying something bad.

Whichever it is, I'm not telling you, personal preference of course, it's not like there are benefits to being anonymous...

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The internet allowed people to communicate freely without an identity attached to them, where they could discuss controversial topics without fear of being ostracised. At first, that is what happened, new ideas were discussed and those sharing them formed their own little bubbles further radicalising their own ideas in echo chambers where any dissenters were immediately kicked out. This led to the strange state of the world we see today with furries, progressives,feminists, transgenders, neo-nazis etc. all creating their  own little echo chambers and accelerating their own personal ideologies. As any armchair philosopher would know, the person with the most pure form of the ideology usually leads while the repenting follow.  Like this the norms of society can radically change in just one generation, an example of this being people in the 50's having the completely disgusting idea that women were best suited for staying home.

Naturally, of the many extreme bubbles of communities some began to pop into the real world, so stuck in their own bubble world they become outraged at the mere idea somebody would say something that does not align with their world view, naturally this should not be allowed, to spout such ridiculous and hateful words this cannot be legal can it? Everybody! Unite! We must put a stop to this! 

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Of course the state becomes enthralled with this, the citizens themselves asking to take away their rights and give them more power? Splendid!

With people's depreciating fear of the internet, attaching your identity or at least parts of your identity to your ideas became more and more common place and its just easier isn't it, social media where you can share your thoughts with the world and people don't take you seriously if your an egg in your profile picture, have to look professional of course. Nobody really talks about serious things on those anonymous message boards do they come on. You can't get your voice heard like that. You need to share your ideas with the world and make it a better place!

What? You think people can't speak freely like that? Of course they can, you can share whatever you know but posting things to incite hate is just terrible I don's see why people should do that. People have the freedom to say whatever they like on the internet and on social media, of course we won't censor people but there will be repercussions for hateful speech.

-I'm sorry Bob but saying these things on Facebook even as a joke tarnishes our company, even if it was from five years ago its made the headlines now and we simply can't let you stay sorry. Goodbye.

-With this rise in hate speech Facebook is working to stop these horrible acts on our platform.

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Ah, but there is a problem here isn't there. People can still say illegal things on the internet. This simply cannot be allowed! This kind of hateful speech is akin to internet terrorism and should be immediately stopped. Violence is being incited and there have been violent attacks and acts of terror. We need to to be able to apprehend criminals before they commit the crime, security is much more important then privacy, of course the government wouldn't abuse this power, you have nothing to hide right? Then you should be fine. There is no reason to be worried. It's not like you will be arrested for browsing the internet, you know, as long you don't visit some weird sites, then you might be put on a list. Also using a VPN puts you on a list apparently. A lot of things put you on a lot of lists. Don't worry about it, its not like the government can monitor everything you do, they don't have those kind of resources, they only archive everything you do and put it on some servers just in case you become suspicious for terrorist activity. We have been getting a lot of terrorist attacks lately so we need to crack down on them before they occur, this is all very necessary. The government has your best interest at heart, they're not evil come on.

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I personally just like being anonymous, honestly, there is no reason for it don't you worry now Mr. CIA agent. 

I'll just be talking about light topics in a purely satirical fashion of course, nothing serious. Just titbits like how the economy might crash, how the corrupt state lusts for power, would the world be a better place if women couldn't vote, the cycles of societal collapse etc. Just some humorous topics. Maybe get in some serious investing guides and graph tutorials possibly.

If you'd like to read such light hearted posts feel free to follow me and join the discussion on some of my inevitably rather out their posts.

If you can comment of course, might have to keep quiet if you agree with such hateful ideas, profile picture and every word you say stored on a blockchain and all that. Immutable, secure, forever and stuff. Very minor however.