Comment by creata
2 days ago
If you're talking about reactions to the murder of Charlie Kirk, I really don't think anonymity is the problem here, because the opinions I've seen people express anonymously aren't much different to the opinions I've seen people express with their names attached.
If anything, the ones where people have attached their names tend to be a bit more extreme. Maybe attaching your name to something makes it feel more important to signal what group you're in.
Named users are not more brave than anonymous users, but they are more reckless
Anonymous users are much less likely to get defensive because they have nothing to defend.
4chan seems to be a counterexample to that.
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