Nikki Haley's crazy plan to require verification on social media

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley wants to abolish anonymity on the internet.

Julian Zelizer : Haley 's enthusiasm for de-anonymizing social media is deeply misguided.

Zelizer says the First Amendment prevents the federal government from meddling with the speech policies of private tech companies.

He says the authors of the Constitution made abundant use of anonymous speech, including the Federalist Papers .