I use my real name on the internet, but there are lots of good reasons not to use real names. Like someone reaching out for advise on what to do about a sensiti

I use my real name on the internet, but there are lots of good reasons not to use real names. Like someone reaching out for advise on what to do about a sensitive subject that there are not ready for the rest of the world to know. But that is not the point I'm trying to make. You said it not technically hard to enact a real name policy, but I argue that of the options you said, a real name policy is the by far the hardest, technically speaking. I can simply say I have a real name policy, but who is validating these names. Hire an army of people to get scans of IDs, and then have no users because no one is going to sign up if the barrier to entry is so high. Blizzard and Facebook have a real name policies, but they do no validation. A government could roll out such a program, but the chances of a world wide program are near zero. And such a universal system would bring identify fraud into a new era of awfulness. It's simply not possible to have a real name system that is valid.