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"My final thought is that social media shouldn’t be tied to ones public identity."

That's called Twitter and as far as I can tell, more incognito it is, the more toxic it is.

Looking back, I remember that all you needed for flame wars was 300 baud. Bad Twitter, in my mind, is not that far from bad alt.talk.

Nah, the blue check real name journalists are more than capable of ginning up a hate mob, as the Covington incident demonstrated.