I've never been to a town square where I had to let some random person photograph my face or tell me to leave.

Except that is clearly not how it works. Spend 5 minutes on facebook, and you will quickly realize that people have absolutely no problem spewing the most disgusting racist, xenophobic shit you have ever seen in your life, while their full names and pictures of them hugging their granchildren are there for everyone to see.

>> nobody should escape the consequences

There are no consequences whatsoever for this.

I'd never thought I'd see advocates against privacy on HN of all places but here we are.

The old town square had anonymous pamphleteers.

I don't need a public ID to sit in my local park nor shop for most things on Main Street.

>nobody should escape the consequences of using that voice to peddle bullshit.

We can already do that without needing ID stored on servers. Blame lazy enforcement with an incentive to retain even bad customers.

Feel free to go make a social media website that requires ID. What you are claiming is that websites that don't require ID should be destroyed. No.