Hmm I just thought I would add I was arguing from the belief that I think child predators like this particular woman can be stopped without making it mandatory to certify one’s identity on the net.
Obviously the net isn’t totally anonymous because her actions were traced to her in the end.
I think there is a line between free speech and harassment of a particular individual/preying on minors.
True, the government could go overboard with cases like this as an excuse to crack down on freedom. However, I think incidents like this can be punished without ruining the whole internet.
Just my opinion anyway.
Since the key of her MO was to obtain a fraudulent identity, then use the fraudulent identity to harass someone online (a violation of the various telecommunications laws), the easiest thing for our benevolent leaders to do would be to make it impossible (or punishable, more likely) to create a fraudulent identity. For the children.
How do you think she could have been stopped?
One thing that's disturbing is that none of the people involved had any qualms, nobody apparently said, stop, this is a bad idea, until a kid that was involved got qualms long after the funeral and dropped a dime on the operation.