Online anonymity may be a luxury we can no longer afford – and it’s disappearing fast anyway. Are we ready to bare all on the internet?
IN JULY last year, Orlando Figes, one of the UK’s most eminent historians,admitted posting savage critiques of rivals’ books on the Amazon website under the pseudonym “Historian” - alongside praise of his own. His eventual confession came only after he had threatened to take legal action against anyone who accused him of the misdeed. Later he blamed his wife for the reviews.
