I'm pretty sure I'm on a watchlist so the moment I go dark by using vpns or whatever ithink the feds will go "holy shit hes actually gonna buy drugs or build a bomb or something" but in reality it's just because I want to pirate nintendo games or something
I feel like this should be driven home to people in actual orgs too. DSA still using Google Forms and Slack and 3rd party hosted online polls and stuff which is basically just giving free statistical and personal information to the government. They probably have to do even less work than they used to in order to keep tabs on left-wing activism in extremely high detail (more detail than organizers themselves potentially have).