I think it's important to understand our scope and reach. I have no way to estimate this. I'm just looking for your opinions and rationale.
Mine is this: I think that there are 1,000,000 +/- Anons in the US, alone. I think this because I am estimating about 20,000 per state on average (with no particular rationale for that number other than it's reasonable in my mind). Obviously populations sizes and political bents affect a state's proportion.
Not all Anons are active or on this Board. On this Board I get the feeling that there are maybe around 5000 active profiles. Mods, can you weigh in on that?
I would consider real Anons to be those on the boards who are actively doing research and posting results. That number is probably in the thousands.
There are a lot of people on those same boards who are trying to tear it all down by posting tripe as well as illegal porn to try and get the law involved.