Many yung come online thinking the entire "dissident right" is their friend, find out only later they were talking to bad people pretending to be something they're not. Many such cases! Some basic precautions:

1. if send writing to a zine, use pastebin link or strip file of metadata 2. always use alt email (protonmail and tutanota are safe) never real 3. never reveal real name or identifying details; use fake phone # 4. use VPN if you can 5. if you go on podcast, voice modulator

6. don't click on google drive links unless logged in to fake account 7. never accept money unless it's done 100% anon; if use bitcoin use fresh address 8. use same precautions when buying from someone's personal site (CVS sells anon debit cards) 9. never trust a journalist