What does it mean to participate in society?

What does it mean to participate in society? What does it mean to passively participate? What happens when you deny a person to even passively participate? If a person for example, anonymously goes to a hackerspace just to observe but everyone there is informed ahead of time, what does that say? The great ludicrousness of it all is that the President is accused of obstruction of justice and treason all the time. Very good laws. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.