The range of self-expression is wider because you can be all of your selves — even those you don't know about yet. Try doing that among your IRL friends — it's much harder because violated social predictability doesn't invite positive feedback. Anon detaches the expectation.
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That's not to say anonymous is all good. It's just that the impulse to associate every online identity with a traditional offline one, defensively, is really bad medicine. TL;DR: Anonymity is good, actually.
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