We choose our levels of anonymity. You responded to Chris, who uses his full name as a handle, and I’m responding to you as literally the only person in the world with my name. ID verification is an unnecessarily onerous requirement that just adds more PII to the insatiable maws of tech firms.

You can self-select being open about your identity, and that seems a good middle ground. Facebook has had a real-name requirement for quite some time, and it didn’t exactly settle into civil discourse as a result of that policy change.