We've had anonymous speech for a long time, at least in the West, and things haven't exactly fallen apart. Quite the contrary, the last 50 years have seen unpre

We've had anonymous speech for a long time, at least in the West, and things haven't exactly fallen apart. Quite the contrary, the last 50 years have seen unprecedented reduction in poverty and violence. You could easily gesture at the world, and say it wouldn't have been better had anonymous speech been suppressed.