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Not wanting to receive threats of violence against you or family members is hardly clamoring for sanitization. Sure, most of those threats aren't actually going to happen but a real human has the stress of having to evaluate each one and hoping they didn't get it wrong.

It's also not as if the only two possibilities are “actual stalker attacks you” and “nothing happens”. SWATing, spamming friends/family/coworker with hateful propaganda or photoshopped porn, placing embarrassing ads with the victim's actual contact info, etc. are all things that happen in the real world and don't require some blowhard to leave their house or risk persecution anywhere near as much as a serious physical attack would entail.