When Nikki Haley proposed a requirement this week that social media companies ban users from posting on their platforms anonymously out of concern for national security, Ron DeSantis and his allies had a field day. His campaign staffers took to Twitter to accuse Haley of wanting to clamp down on constitutionally protected speech. DeSantis himself tweeted that anonymous voices are key to free speech rights in the United States, hearkening back to Founding Fathers like Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison, who collectively authored the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym “Publius.” “...
