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Anonymity made for a healthier internet in my opinion. Nobody cared if xXNinja_420Xx said he was going to kill you or that all left-handed people deserve to be in concentration camps. Everyone still runs their fool mouth same as they used to except now you know it's your cousin Drew or Samantha from accounting saying it. Putting a name and a face on internet bullshit was a horrible development.

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Given today's culture anonymity is even more important than it ever was. Someone across the world can boycott your place of work and get you sacked for voicing unfashionable opinions. Who will provide for your family then? Don't expect to lean on your partner either, they'll probably push to get her/him sacked too for associating with you.

True. Look at the blowback from Beto's writing from his childhood and how he had to apologise for it[0], some twenty or thirty years later.

[0] - https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/03/16/beto-orourke-poems-ch...

> Everyone still runs their fool mouth same as they used to

I very much doubt this is true. Yes, people run their mouth on FB and other real-name / real-identity accounts, but not to the same extent as with anonymous profiles. What you see on real name accounts should be assumed to be the tip of the iceberg.

All left-handed people deserve to be in concentration camps.

Damn you, xXNinja_420Xx.

I don't care

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