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It's only a good thing if you're not going to say or be anything which would get you beaten up if everyone were to know about it. It's easy for people who are, in the example of Austria, White, straight, cis, and either Christian or, at the very least, not Muslim, to decry anonymity, but if you're a member of a disfavored minority group, all de-anonymization does is does is open you up to abuse, discrimination, and, perhaps, violence.

You can take as an example the problems Facebook's "Real Names" policy caused for sexual minorities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_real-name_policy_cont...

... except multiply it by a thousandfold when the government is in the pocket of a political party which is... disinclined... to acknowledge the existence or legitimacy of such people.