Right, this is exactly what I try to explain in a long comment[1] (different thread, comparable topic). I essentially argue that we should not confuse the medi

Right, this is exactly what I try to explain in a long comment[1] (different thread, comparable topic). I essentially argue that we should not confuse the medium (internet, a "network of networks"; like air or water or space) with the usage and information passing by said medium (the "high level" stuff like "speech" or "websites"; like oral speech or stores and parks in the physical world). I'm surprised that a researcher who contributed to building the medium, the infrastructure itself, would fail to recognize we're talking at very different levels, totally different scopes when we conflate 'internet' with any private company or citizen operating over the medium. It's romantic and doesn't help solving any kind of issue, whether low-level or high-level. I will echo user `riazrizvi` in this thread: > Simply the internet has always reflected the segment of society that used it. Now that everyone uses it it reflects society at large. So I don’t think this is an internet problem, but rather an opportunity to see the worlds social problems being translated into a more transparent codified form. I reject the author’s two solutions as being low effort addendums. Let us acknowledge we are not seeing new problems, but rather we are seeing old problems with a new lens. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21383074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21383074