It's practical anonymity anyway. No one will actually bother to dig up Joe Wilkinson from Adairville, Kentucky.

The Internet was killed by the Eternal September of everyone getting access. We forgot the age-old rule of "don't feed the troll".

Now people will respond to, retweet and amplify every village idiot's voice so that it can be heard around the globe. And The Algorithm loves that, because it's engagement and drives more people to engage and be enraged by the content.

If we would just stop interacting with idiots they would shut up or maybe, just maybe, they might learn some actual discourse.