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 your post though?? “The anonymous handles, then, are soon-to-be-discarded relics of centralized platforms en route to a real public square, protected by the First Amendment and enforced by an unstoppable protocol.”

I find this to be true and important, Freedom is “[t]he ability not to have an identity that one carries from sphere to sphere but, rather, to be able to slip in and adopt whatever values and norms are appropriate while retaining one’s identities in other domains[.]” (Elizabeth Anderson, American philosopher)

This is much harder to do if you use your real name on social.