Anonymity and lack of accountability/a target to attack on the internet is just a huge pain in the ass for most governments and corporate interests. It is also

Anonymity and lack of accountability/a target to attack on the internet is just a huge pain in the ass for most governments and corporate interests. It is also useful, to some extent, for bot farms, propaganda, opinion influencing and spycraft. But if you're a government controlling the "internet id" for your or other nations, then you can easily make affordances for whipping up a "valid" fake digital personage. That it still exists is a technical and political challenge that will eventually be resolved. There's too much money and soft and hard power to be gained by getting rid of it.