For a long time, the internet anonymity was considered to be main differentiator between modern, free America, and more strict regimes.<p>However, until privacy is guaranteed by constitution, there will be always a temptation to make things easier by tying your personal id numbers to accounts.
This isn't so weird. I needed to send a picture of my id to coinbase to unlock my account, and needed to use my SSN to create one at all. Monetary fraud brought that on us, to they're probably thinking of social media as "societal fraud" or something ...
Weaker groups (such as the victims of family, domestic and sexual violence) are the ones who are protected most by anonymity.<p>Take away anonymity and the abusers will have a much easier time finding their victims (back). And/or the abused will need to forgo using social media.
Of course it's Australia. It's always Australia, New Zealand or the UK.<p>I simply don't understand <i>why</i> governments in "free" countries feel that they need to meddle with every aspect of people's lives. I'm starting to think that it's better if things I like don't become popular, so that governments don't start meddling with them.
How could this possibly be helpful for victims of domestic violence? I mean obviously that's not the real reason, but I don't even understand what the "reason" is.