There is currently a debate over whether to revoke the ability to make anonymous comments online.

What precisely are you giving, apart from your anonymous comments on the Internet?

Which meant that three other computer scientists checked over my article and made anonymous comments on whether it should be published.

In that respect, it's pretty similar to posting anonymous disparaging comments about someone's choice of career.

Or to carefully study anonymous comments, tweets and online reviews from people who don't like the work you're doing.

First, it would be essential to allow anonymous comments.

However I don't believe you should ban anonymous or pseudonymous comments.

"I am a strong advocate of doing away with anonymous comments," she wrote on Friday.

And even belligerent anonymous comments often reflect genuine passion that should be heard.

So he has proposed a bill to make illegal the posting of anonymous comments online.