Center in Los Angeles said that although he supports open discourse on the Internet, he worries that anonymity provides a cloak for purveyors of hate. The whole notion of anonymity, in my mind, flies in the face of developing a community. The technology is new, but the issues are old. A man is just, not willingly or because he thinks that justice is any good to him individually, but of necessity, for wherever anyone thinks that he can safely be unjust, there he is unjust. In April last year the U.S Supreme Court said that anonymity can be a force for good, and is too important to squelch.
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.
It facilitates wrong by eliminating accountability. . . . With such a long history of controversy surrounding these issues, it was inevitable that Helsingius's work would bring him under attack. The American police officer quoted in that account has since said that he was misquoted, and that very little child porn is sent through remailers. Helsingius had worked with a Finnish police officer to prevent child pornographers from using his service, in part by limiting the size of messages below the size of most photos. Other attacks have come from the Church of Scientology.