Why? What justification do you have for this? When I was in high school I ran with a lot of "bad" kids. I read about a lot of weird shit online. Why is that my parents business? Why can't I, and anyone else that age, be their own person? Should I have been made to talk to my dad, mother, or grandmother about the things I did? Do you want to talk your grandmother about every bad little thing to you did, was near, thought about, or saw? You want to talk to your grandmother about the conversation you had with your friend the other day about gay sex? I don't want to talk to my grandmother about it. I don't want her to even fucking know it happened.
But people like her knowing about these kinds of things is one of the things polarizing this country. The US has always had people like the Tea Baggers. They've only come out of their backwater shitholes because they are not being allowed to ignore all the things that annoy them.
Removing anonymity is going to force people to see how "fucked up" the people around them are and create more friction.
I think everyone knows this about facebook. But I think there is a place for people to have anonymity online. An employer doesn't need to know that his new employee picks up fat hairy guys for gay sex on craigslist.
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