A society has to decide what it will tolerate in the name of free expression and what it will treat as abuse that corrodes public life. In this case, a court found defamation and harassment serious enough to justify heavy damages and the lifting of anonymity. Reports around the case point to a £300,000 award in December 2023 and later steps in 2025 that allowed the operator to be publicly named. That sequence suggests a legal system trying to balance protection of reputation with the realities of online platforms that generate profit from humiliation. The temptation is to treat one unmasked operator as a neat moral ending. Yet the real test is whether procedures, enforcement, and platform incentives change, so that harassment becomes less rewarding and less contagious. If nothing else shifts, the crowd will simply find a new stage.