# Would he have silenced Publius? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-he-have-silenced-publius/440919 "2008-03-11T02:28:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-he-have-silenced-publius/440919/41 "2008-03-14T22:08:04Z")
I, for one, have nothing to fear. I sneer at all you anonomous nitwits. JRB (and yeah, this is one of the dumbest internet-security-related ideas to come down the pike…) ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-he-have-silenced-publius/440919/42 "2008-03-14T23:00:05Z")
I think nobody properly [welcomed him to the Internet](http://welcome.twysted.net/). (signed) Invisible T. Wombat 94 Vombatidae Way Marsupial, MT 59159 ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-he-have-silenced-publius/440919/43 "2008-03-14T23:21:54Z")
As a person who’s already got 70% of (one version of) my name in my username, I can say that, if I was _forced_ to cough up my actual name to post on the internet, I would immidiately start lying about it with 100% consistency. On principle alone. Signed, the future Andrew Nonymus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-he-have-silenced-publius/440919.md?page=2)