Real-name policies on social platforms exist mainly to make users legible for advertising and government surveillance, not user safety.

government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

privacy Keeping what people say to each other between them: end-to-end encryption, backdoors, and what a company will shut down rather than break.

social media Feeds and the platforms that rank them: what an algorithm decides is important, and what curating your own sources costs.