The thing is in 2010 people got away with saying absolute nonsense. Nowadays people are judged more critically, as let's be honest, we are a lot less anonymous on the internet than we were - so it is harder to look past peoples controversial views without thinking 'wtf - this is a real human and those are his actual views'.
My 2 cents anyway.
Is that why nobody can pinpoint who the mob is and how they don't know who they are? The last I looked the real names were getting drilled for having a point of view. The people who has no names can do more or less whatever they want without an consequences. If they do get banned they sign up with a new account or change IP or using VPN.