[mediumsmart]

I‘m ok with real opinions on the internet.

[sunaookami]

Then go to Facebook, nearly everyone is posting there with their real names (which further proves how out of touch Merz is).

[MonkeyClub]

He's not out of touch: the FB situation is optional, Merz wants to make this mandatory.

[ulfw]

Same. I use my actual name and show my Linkedin on HN.

Unless you're a troll or a bot or are in any way shape or form paid to post your opinions, why wouldn't you stand behind them?

It's not like we talk to people on the street with a knight's armor on

[ok_dad]

Email me your address, I’ll head over and look through your things. If you have nothing to hide, you’ll agree.

(Thank goodness it doesn’t work that way.)

[dmitrygr]

Spoken like someone who has never lived in an oppressive regime. Must be nice.

On the other hand, being that inconsiderate isn’t very nice at all. Plenty of people live in places were saying the wrong thing and get your jailed or worse, like the UK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2025/09/09/people-a...

[bitwize]

"Solomon is hiding because he is a coward who enjoys belittling other people from behind a safe veil of invisibility. His is like many sites on the internet, who mock and insult while lacking any courage to own their own words. In public, these cowards would not dare to say the same things, because they know full well that someone just might come after them, knock their yapping blocks off, or in a worst case scenario, go to their house one night and kill them." —Jennifer Diane Reitz, author of Unicorn Jelly, on a pseudonymous critic of her comics