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cause you're worried someone you work with might see your hate-filled rant against the blacks.

... or your sexual orientation...

... or your religion...

... or your non-gender-standard hobby...

... or your name makes you a cultural attack target online...

... or any one of a hundred things that are personal that other people have no business knowing. Sure, using your real name is great if you're strong-willed, relatively safe, and part of the safest demographic on the web.

This argument that privacy is only important to those who have something horrible to hide should be well and truly debunked by now.




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