Not sure if it's just the anonymity, it also has to do with the fact that the community is much bigger Without anonymity, the larger the social-surface area, t

Not sure if it's just the anonymity, it also has to do with the fact that the community is much bigger Without anonymity, the larger the social-surface area, the greater the attack surface is. This is why as facebook grows, it becomes less useful. And why, when it was started, it was successful based on its "exclusiveness" (.edu), and not the other way around. The "real reason" people wan't to eliminante online anonymity are two fold: (1) money; and (2) power. Advertising and fascism both require manipulative social leverage, and having data-sets with non-anonymous correlations provides the tools to fight the old wars of the 20th century. The forces at work are dark and powerful and likely to win. They run through Silicon Valley and its establishment just like they do the east coast. Becuase at this stage, the one is just spending the money of the other...deep symbiotic linkages mean the one cannot do without the other.