A stock car driver had his career ruined for things is father said long ago.
> libertarians are very anti free speech when the speech is anti their house of cards
It's sad that that occurred. A major part of libertarianism is free speech. But I'm sure you know that left-wing governments prefer to send any dissenters to the gulag.
Whataboutism?
Honestly if all you really have is "but those other bad people are bad too" you have nothing at all.
I generalized left wing government as bad, sure, and I can cite many examples of it. The USSR, Pol Pot, etc.
And it's hard because there's so many ways someone could make connections that aren't immediately obvious. For example, I used to have my home's IP address set as a subdomain of the same one I use for email (for VPNing in). But later I thought about it and realized that anyone could easily look at the DNS records for my domain and know more than I really want them to.
In the "use your real name" corner - people argue that using an anonymous handle means that there is no credibility, the lack of consequence means that people can be /more/ disingenuous and provide bad faith comments.
In the "be anonymous" corner - people argue that what you say or do on the net now shouldn't affect you in 25 years time (there are multiple examples of politicians, or public figures who have said unwise things on the internet, only to have their careers ripped apart decades later)
For me (obviously) I have chosen the anonymous handle - because in the past I have had employers contacted because I hold different political views to some nasty people, I've had my house marked by them, my life was threatened, and some veiled threats about my children. (libertarians are very anti free speech when the speech is anti their house of cards)