I know it's not a popular position to take but I still think if the worst trolls were starved of oxygen they would crawl back under their bridge and die. An ign

I know it's not a popular position to take but I still think if the worst trolls were starved of oxygen they would crawl back under their bridge and die. An ignored troll is a defeated troll. Nasty people will always exist of course online and in the material world and thankfully even the meanest, nastiest button pushing trolls very rarely act on their threats to harm or kill the people they target. A more important question is what drives so many people to attack non-white people and women online? Is it simply a reaction to a drop in status as traditionally oppressed groups assert themselves or is there more to this? We likely won't know anytime soon as the trend today is to dissect and discuss symptoms to the point of absurdity but talking about the causes or possible causes is almost taboo. E.g. Trump. Endless articles and opinion pieces bullshitting about how "evil" and "fascist" he is but serious discussions asking if, say, widespread economic disenfranchisement and the Democrats alienating the white working class in favor of identity politics has something to do with it. The culture of outrage that identity politics has morphs into treats words as the fotemost evil in our world. "OMG Drumpf SAYS he's going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it and HE SAYS he will "ban" Muslims from entering the US!! He must be stopped!" Meanwhile Obama is deporting so many illegal immigrants he earned another nickname from it (Depoter in Chief) and firing Hellfire missiles on wedding parties and other funny acting Muslim civilians. Thousands have been killed or injured by "mistakes". But never mind about that because Trump. And don't ask if the economic lot of black people has improved during Obama's eight years in office or what he has done to stop the deaths of young black men at the hands of police. That would destroy the fantasy of America's first black president as a hip, progressive dude who really cares...and we can't have that. Back to trolls "ruining" the Internet. Instead of cutting off their oxygen (the only proven way to kill trolls) Time gives them a massive infusion of the stuff and a hysterical headline to go with it. Of course possible root causes won't be explored and government surveillance, censorship etc. of the Internet in conjunction with business interests (the MPAA and RIAA to name two very prominent ones) that sends American LEA to foreign lands to violate the liberies of people suspected of...sharing links to pirated movies/music and running a cloud storage service that may have been used to store and share the aforementioned files. It does sometimes feel like the world has gone over a cliff and the media, the establishment political parties and their wealthy owners/donors have glumped together into a mass of crazy that is stealth infecting people around the world.