I don't think it's necessarily anonymous free speech that is the problem. I hang out occasionally on Freenet, on FMS and Sone specifically. Freenet is very an

I don't think it's necessarily anonymous free speech that is the problem. I hang out occasionally on Freenet, on FMS and Sone specifically. Freenet is very anonymous by design. It turns out it is a mostly pleasant and helpful community. I think one good reason for that is that both FMS (which is a bulletin board system) and Sone (which is more like Facebook posts) use a version of a "web of trust". People you don't want to hear get filtered out, and others can trust your trust list and filter them out as well. Some people only filter out obvious abuse, others filter out more. Frost (another bulletin board system without a web of trust), on the other hand, is a downright awful place to go most of the time. I wonder how feasible it would be for Reddit to implement subreddit-based web of trusts for users, as opposed to moderation. People could filter others (or not) individually and not have to rely on someone else to try to filter for the whole group.