I still believe that there are definitely costs to anonymity, but stifling anonymous speech is a huge cost to democracy.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.