i use anonymity to disconnect my web history on google searches, though i leave clues for intelligence organizations (it makes me feel important).
my comments are sometimes extreme and objectionable to the norms of jewish society, so i feel more of a freedom to express my opinions openly.
i don’t think its proper that people “judge” someone based on one sentence they write in haste that they can’t erase. i think herzle was incorrectly judged harshly for “thinking outloud”.
also the degree and type of slander circulated about me in my “real life” has rendered my real name an obscenity.
wikipedia says most formal name systems were spread from the west for government monitoring in the 1700-1800’s.