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God some of you people are stupid.
The whole point of free speech is that it is free. If you need to hide anonymously, then it's not free, it's simply bypassing censorship.
Suppressing online anonymity is very problematic, but free speech is absolutely not one of them.
Free speech as a right is an ideal. In practice, any given government of a country that purports to grant its citizens freedom of speech will have types of speech that it wants to censor (despite its legality) and will use whatever means available to subvert that right. As such, speech is only free insofar as it can be protected. Online anonymity is one such protection.