>Ostensibly, making everyone interact on the internet under their real name will "prevent harassment and bullying". But I have no idea how anyone with even pass

>Ostensibly, making everyone interact on the internet under their real name will "prevent harassment and bullying". But I have no idea how anyone with even passing familiarity with internet communities could believe that The idea is that anonymous people 'harass' the over-privileged so-called celebrities on Twitter. Of course if everyone was anonymous then there would be nobody to harass, and if everyone was pseudonymous then at least anyone would be a name-change away from harassment. Personally I think that one interesting thought experiment would be that everyone sees everyone else as a different name. So we all see totally randomly generated strings as each others' names. If you block someone then they can't just make a new account and go to your profile, because the new account can't see BlisteringOakPlatypus (assuming some sort of gfycat-like scheme), as that name is only my randomly generated identity from the perspective of their old account. You also can't bandwagon on people: "hey, go harass DribblingPharmacologicalHippopotamus" wouldn't have any effect. How would you connect with people you know? You could generate a one-use code they could put into their account to find your profile and communicate with you. Or you could generate a code that lets them just view your profile, without communicating with you. Or for either of these, a many-use code. This lets you be a 'broadcaster' like a celebrity on Twitter, but just because you broadcast doesn't mean you have to receive messages back. How would you find new people? Well on a Facebook-like platform, through friends-of-friends. What happens if you block someone and they reconnect to one of your friends and can then see you again? The same way you deal with encountering people you don't like IRL through friends of friends. You just have to deal with it like a human. On a Twitter-like platform, you just follow particular tags or whatever, hashtags, etc. On a bulletin board, you add people that you see make points you like/appreciate/find to be helpful.