You are conflating anonymity with accountability. Accountability can be improved without revealing someone's identity and revealing someone's identity will not

You are conflating anonymity with accountability. Accountability can be improved without revealing someone's identity and revealing someone's identity will not necessarily improve their behavior. (There is plenty of bad behavior on Facebook, for example.) Your (and Schmit's and Zuckerberg's) solution to this social problem will have more negative unintended consequences then I think we realize. See the following for better reasoning and analysis than I can offer: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2006/01/70000 http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma... http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/06/12/for-the-lolz-4chan-is-hacking-the-attention-economy.html http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/06/12/for-the...