I have studied history of other authoritarian governments. As they say if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck, it is most likely a duck.

Everything posted on the Internet lasts forever and available to any government agency. Pen names that people use to disguise who they are on the forums hide nothing, which is why I use my real name.

The Veterans Administration even has my DNA on file allegedly to study health issues particular to war veterans. I don't have to pretend there is much in the way of actual privacy in the age of the Iternet.