Also, the town square is ephemeral. Sure, maybe it's written down somewhere, heck maybe the local scribe even publishes it in the next day's paper. But it won't show up 7 years later as the third Google search result when someone searches your name.
You either need the right to be forgotten, or the right to be anonymous.
This is the crux of the social good of anonymization in modern times.
Historically, it wasn't current-moment anonymization that was good, but ephemerality.
Sadly, I think the right/ability-to-record is a genie that can't be put back in the bottle (no one can scrape anything?), so we may need to switch from identifiable-but-emphemral (historical state) to anonymous-but-recordable (future state) to preserve the same freedoms.
IMHO, we'd be better off working to curb the worst consequences of broad anonymity (e.g. astroturfing / artificial amplification).
It’s all just that internet is neither a game to be hunted nor a fire to be started. No one knows how to deal with it. Because there isn’t any proper way to deal with it. It should not exist in the first place, says our minds, for which it is all unintelligible.
You either need the right to be forgotten, or the right to be anonymous.