Tell a transperson that. Or an abuse survivor. Or someone with HIV trying to get information. There are many, many, many situations where requiring real names i

Tell a transperson that. Or an abuse survivor. Or someone with HIV trying to get information. There are many, many, many situations where requiring real names is harmful to a community. As a further counterexample, look at news sites which use facebook comments as their backend. People are quite willingly assholes even if their "real" name is behind what they write.