In Defense of Anonymity

isn't this just another route that enables hackers, pirates, and spammers to thrive?

don't we need the ability to identify malicious internet users so we can punish them? it's all well and good to talk about "the federalist papers" but what if the "authors" of said documents had the ability to tape them all over your car, bang on your door at 3 AM wearing a mask and throw a stack of them in your face when you answer it and run off, or hijack your TV feed and display them instead of your regular programming.

anonymity sounds like a nice liberty until people start exploiting it to screw with other people's lives.