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Which in part stems back to anonymity. Information becomes easier to filter and fact check when the purveyors and the sources are not anonymous. People also tend to act more civil when not anonymous.

But, a lack of anonymity brings a whole host of other problems.

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Removing anonymity doesn't solve anything. People post and share all sorts of lies and fake news under their real names. They just don't care.

Preserving anonymity is essential for whistle blowers and other vulnerable people.

Anonymity is the keystone of free speech. There is no freedom of speech without the freedom to speak anonymously.

And if I run a 10,000 bot network - should my speech be free?

Have you heard of the Federalist papers?

Sybil attacks are a consequence of anonymity combined with low cost of identity creation, and inability to distinguish between different identities.

The fix for Sybil attacks generally involves making identity creation more expensive, or providing a means for distinguishing more valuable identities. On HN, for instance, the karma score is one such mechanism.

These systems can work without removing anonymity.

And I never said anonymity was easy or without trade-offs.

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