Online discourse has been the wild west since Usenet. This was alright 10 years ago, back when it only mostly a certain kind of person accessing the internet. N

Online discourse has been the wild west since Usenet. This was alright 10 years ago, back when it only mostly a certain kind of person accessing the internet. Now social media more accurately reflects the world demographics. I've long believed some government-issued, OpenID-like identity platform would go a long way to enable a lot of other online activities (like voting), but saying government will do a better job solving problems than corporations is misunderstanding the issue. Before we run off trying to problems, we need to figure out what kind of online society we want. I'm not yet convinced anyone has really thought that through.