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I guess the Germans attitude has a lot to do with shitstorms, e.g. a recent one that pushed the victim to suicide. Some people behave really nastily if they bel

• Arnt 2y ago
  Adding to that. Shitstorms aren't the only thing. Fake news, slander and so on also matter in Germany. There's an ongoing affair for example, someone posted a fake quote back in 2016 and eventually was sentenced to prison for it. (Basically, "x said y" except that the whole thing was a slanderous invention.) People still keep reposting the shit even now, and the Germans don't like that kind of thing. I think that anyone who wants to defend pseudoanonymity needs to look closely at how to dininish the number and magnitude of shitstorms, prosecute swatters reliably and generally get a grip on the negative consequences of pseudoanonymity.