I'm going to defer to the people that say that the cesspool aspect of it all is actually harmful. And no, I don't mean that Stacy is, like, omg, such a bitch. O

I'm going to defer to the people that say that the cesspool aspect of it all is actually harmful. And no, I don't mean that Stacy is, like, omg, such a bitch. Or that 14 year old /b/tards are brigading some corporate account with gore and porn. I mean the actual harmful harassment. The article mentioned that one of the co-stars of the new Ghostbusters quit online media due to the cesspool, but there are many many more instances of people taking the endless microphone of online social media and making it horrible. Though it is incredibly rare, some people are in fact driven to suicide due to the targeted harassment. Now we can debate facts and the amount of thickness your skin should be until the Zuck finally kicks the bucket. But the point I want to make is that sometimes the cesspool gets away from itself and steps over some invisible line into true harassment that can't be defended to a lot of people as simple freedom of speech (lawyers assemble!). I love that we have freedom of speech in this country, and I know that it is not meant for the things that you or I like to hear and that it is explicitly for the lowlifes and assholes to say what they want to. Still, I don't know where that line is, but I do know that it gets crossed a lot; and that from the media I consume, the line tends to be crossed a lot more if you are female or black. So, I'll defer to the people that have been bitten by the cesspool, as I have not been in their shoes and have had to stare at their phones while hate comes blasting in and all they are trying to do is order a pizza. If a lot of the people that have had these experiences say that Twitter et al need to be better, then I think I have to trust them.