People tend to defend online anonymity by pointing to the long tradition of anonymous speech in American democracy.
But modern anonymity is an entirely new beast.
When Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison wrote the essays that would become The Federalist Papers, they weren’t anonymous in the modern sense. That is, friends of Hamilton and Madiso…
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