The problem is the quantity of criminals — I think we can reasonably call them that — online. Do you notice that fewer and fewer people are posting under their own names? It’s just not safe to do so; and those of us who continue to do so and then post in fora meet with insults for so doing. It is a routine tactic to look up anything you ever said anywhere and then quote-mine it to attack you personally, rather than discuss the issue.

Even those who might be willing have to consider the possibility that some scumbag manager might cause them to lose their jobs. Fortunately that cannot happen to me, since I work for myself; but few have that degree of power over their own lives.

We live in a society that grows ever less free, ever more controlling, and ever more determined to say “you can’t do that; you can’t say that!” etc. O tempora! O mores!