The New York Times reports that newspaper sites are reviewing whether to allow anonymous comments. This is not a big surprise. Anonymity is a clear virtue of the Internet in many contexts (the classic case is anonymous criticism of totalitarian regimes), but, as we see every day in our work, it can also release the worst parts of our Id.
The next step will be to observe whether this shift changes user behavior. Will users simply and increasingly create additional “personas” they can use to comment pseudonymously?
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