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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by gknoy on Monday March 12, 2018 @03:45PM (#16570856)
> A real ID may be required for you to post comments in all websites. [I]t would drastically reduce comment trolling, if your real identify was viewable and searchable by all you know. But at what cost?

The cost is that it would prevent people from anonymously reporting abuses, which means that fear of retaliation will have a chilling effect. We've already seen this where people get death threats, houses burned down, etc, when they do things like report sexual assault.

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by chillwaves on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:29PM (#16571837)
People should be allowed to be anonymous but only explicitly so. The problem now is we have people lying about who they are and using multiple accounts and other forum moderation abuse to push viewpoints, often paid to do so.
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