@blatham,
blatham wrote:
Quote:Oralloy's scurrilous malign fantasies about progressives got at least 4 threads locked.
To my mind, the most consequential failures of social media arise from protecting anonymity and the web-culture reluctance to permanently remove repeat offenders of sites' rules. Trolls and bots walk right in that open door and disinformation/misinformation along with incivility have become significant elements threatening democracy.
When I first started making public comments many years ago, I did so via letters-to-the-editor of newspapers and national magazines. The rules were simple...no comment or thought was published unless the individual making the comments included their name, address, and phone number. Only the name and city were published. The phone number was used to verify that the sender of the letter actually existed and lived where they said they did. There were very, very infrequent allowances for anonymity (for valid reasons), but other than that, EVERY comment was made by someone identified.
I think that should be the case now. Nobody HAS TO COMMENT, so if a person wants not to comment, he/she doesn't have to.