I don’t think it should be legal to anonymously create a facebook, instagram,X,tiktok,reddit account. Without having accounts traceable back to an identify illegal behavior never stops and the person is never held accountable. Online crimes but are unenforceable as long as anonymity is permitted. There is little to no good that comes from anonymously creating an account compared to the massive amounts of harm. Implementing restrictions does not affect 99.99% of the population and only filters out the tiny minority of people who represent a disproportional amount of harm on the platform.
I still think anonymity should be permitted on tor, i2p and less popular sites.
Well, I wouldn’t go as far as to make it illegal to create an anonymous account, but my anecdotal evidence says that if you want people to behave and for those who don’t to actually stay away after they’ve been kicked, then part of the answer is an account tied to your actual identity (admins have to know, not necessarily users) and a subscription-based bussines model so the users actually have skin in the game and the platform doesn’t need to fund itself with ads, thus making users the product.
I’m a paid member on such a platform and you genuinely can’t find people acting like obnoxious jerks there even if you go looking. Here finding one takes 20 seconds.
just to be clear, I am not saying users have to know who your are or even platforms. I am just saying governments.