You may not have anything to hide right now, but who knows what people will think in 10 years, or who will be in power, or what a hiring manager may think after looking at your socials. When you post something on the internet, it's like you're screaming it on your front porch through a megaphone while all your neighbors are recording.

I used to hold the same opinion, but that changed after hearing a report that Facebook knows more about its users than their own IRL loved ones. That was sad, creepy, and dystopian at the same time. While I still don't think my online activity would ruin my life if it got out (I don't even use profanity) I still silo my online activity from my meatspace self as much as possible.

I once heard someone say this: In a surveillance state, you’re not the one who decides if you have something to hide.

People project. A lot.

People who do shit like this are usually the ones who have something to hide, and throw out the guilt by casting blame/suspicion on others.

Every cheater/liar/bastards I ever knew, always was 'vigilant' about enforcing the rules and making big public declarations about how people who do that are horrible and they'd never do it. And they always did.

The people who have shit to hide are the ones who go around being hostile and accusatory to others.

In the world we are moonwalking towards, how can one express a political viewpoint (and remember, everything is political) whilst not experiencing the fear of reprecussions, or them truly happening (losing a job, being set aside, violence including potentially fatal, etc)?

"I like to close the bathroom door when I'm taking a shower. Doesn't mean I'm doing anything immoral in there. I'm just entitled to privacy."

They can extrapolate from there if they've got two brain cells to rub together.

Tell them you regularly hide your disgust for people that trade privacy for convenience behind polite disdain.

I ask them for their banking or social media passwords. Then use the exact same arguments back at them.

That they underestimate how much they have to hide. I know a few that actually have much more to hide than me.

Well shit, now you're in a list.

In what context?

edit: in that case I'd say "Yeah, I do!".