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Seems self evident. Anything you say without anonymity may be used against you by future employers or future Twitter mob equivalents at any point.

It's impossible to guess what subset of appropriate speech in 2022 will still be appropriate years or decades from now.

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I don't buy that that's true of "anything" and I wish there were more quantitative data on who perceives that to be the case and why.

(Also, it seems like holders of this opinion think there is non-zero risk but also zero upside. This is strange to me and seems like it must have to do with the specific views people are biting their tongues on.)

I understand the concern, but also we do all have to act as ourselves in public life in many ways - any one of your identifiable actions could always come back to bite you.

If you want to build any kind of public profile or have much influence in life you kinda have to face this risk head-on to some extent.

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