Roy Greenslade
The Guardian
August 22, 2013
The Huffington Post is to end anonymity for commenters by requiring them to use their real identities. The change was announced by the site’s founder, Arianna Huffington, after speaking at a conference yesterday (21 August) in Boston.
She said: “Trolls are just getting more and more aggressive and uglier and I just came from London where there are rape and death threats.”
Explaining the “need to evolve a platform to meet the needs of the grown-up internet,” she said: “I feel that freedom of expression is given to people who stand up for what they say and not hiding behind anonymity.”
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