I totally agree that we should not prosecute based on being the originator. But I'm saying it is a reasonable place to start an investigation. Being able to pic

I totally agree that we should not prosecute based on being the originator. But I'm saying it is a reasonable place to start an investigation. Being able to pick a starting point for an investigation even if it just narrows the search to a neighborhood or city or even country(even if it may not totally be correct in cases of people of high technical skill) is at least a better starting point then searching for John Doe who is somewhere, presumably on the planet earth. I'm not suggesting that we have a system where someone can look up what anyone is doing on the Internet at any point in time. I'm simply saying that if there is no way to connect an action made online to the real world such that it cannot be used as evidence against someone then anything a person does on the internet has no possible repercussions. Which I think would have some horrific consequences. Yes there is room for some abuse, and an actual implementation of any system would have to work out how to minimize this abuse, but at a certain point you need to trust your government. They have the ability to do a lot worse to a person then find out what they are browsing online.