Maybe it’s because you can’t get your ass kicked by being uncivil on the internet anonymously? People are kicked out of bars for being assholes and it’s becaus

Maybe it’s because you can’t get your ass kicked by being uncivil on the internet anonymously? People are kicked out of bars for being assholes and it’s because they have been drinking their inhibitions are lowered and judgement of consequences is disrupted. Similarity to anonymous assholes on the Internet - their inhibitions are lowered because there’s no consequence. I don’t think we should require names use or prohibit anonymous contributions. But the culture of the internet is pretty bad in this regard today when millions of anonymous people spend millions of hours getting riled up at shit posts from anonymous people.