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It's not about influence.

To take an example from a sibling thread: If you live in Turkey and write negative about Erdogan you get charged with terrorism. It's something people can only afford to do if they are reasonably sure they will not be identified and I think we can agree a real name policy makes this rather hard. So, if you ask for a real name policy you ask for a policy which not everyone can afford to adhere here to. You probably[1] can, so it's a privilege you have, others don't have. Therefore, written from a place of privilege.

[1] If someone asks for a real name policy while not being able to adhere to it (without dire consequences for themselves) they don't write from a position of privilege, but imho that's a rather academic case.



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