It just widens your attack surface for the ghost army of bots that roam the net knocking on ports, you don't want to be someone else's sap. I would imagine most home attacks fall into three categories: script kiddies just war driving, targeted attacks on someone specific, or just plain ol' looking for sensitive docs for identity theft or something. Its still the net, man. If you leave your ass hanging out someone's gonna bite it in a new way every time.

People aren't posting their revolutionary activities guys. They just aren't. Enjoy.

We can't Rambo ourselves out of this no matter how much we all wish we could. Get the action movie shit out of your head. People are acting and resisting. You aren't going to see it on mainstream media yet. They've got a narrative to push.

Too much power. The US has spent the last couple of decades giving corporations too much power. They will inevitably try to control civilian populations. Usually in tandem with the US government, since most of these tech giants are US based. There was a word for the merger of corporate and state power somewhere...