Russia has prohibited anonymous comments on web sites.

It has also imposed many other limits on Internet use, including arbitrary blocking of inconvenient web sites.

Of course, Russia is ruled by a tyrant, and this is what tyrants do. (I pity the poor fools in the Crimea that wanted to be under Putin's power — if indeed they were more than a bunch of armed gangs he had set up.)

What is more dangerous is that governments of "free" countries such as the US, France, Italy, and Finland also block web sites, and have laws such as the DMCA that lend themselves to political censorship.

A UK committee wants to ban anonymity on the internet.