Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and others hand out megaphones with international reach for free, to anyone, and they accept no responsibility for what people do with

Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and others hand out megaphones with international reach for free, to anyone, and they accept no responsibility for what people do with their megaphones. Mumbling into your can of lager as you wander down the street, covered in feces? Have a megaphone. 9 years old and alone? Megaphone. Complete psychopath? Megaphone. Out and proud neo-Nazi? Have a megaphone on us guys! Then they just stand back and try to maximize engagement and total time spent on their service, and have a ratio of moderators to users that’s so low it’s a rounding error. It’s like having a classroom of a million people with two grossly overworked, underpaid, and traumatized teachers trying to keep a semblance of order. Everyone is free to speak, to be drowned out by sheer volume of numbers and volume. Plus half of students are robots who do nothing, but shout at superhuman rates 24/7.