Think of anonymity as noise in a signal. It can protect a whistleblower, but it can also hide a transmitter that is pumping out targeted cruelty at scale. A High Court ruling that turns a pseudonym into a person cuts the noise for a moment and lets responsibility lock onto the right source. The question is what happens next: do platforms improve their filtering, do advertisers back away from toxic spaces, do users stop treating harassment like entertainment? A single verdict is a data point, not a trend line. If the incentives stay the same, the system will drift back into the same orbit, just with a different name on the control panel.