What I think should be done: Less free stuff. Free online stuff does not feed quality. Money is the tie that binds. And free stuff binds us to advertisers. You

What I think should be done: Less free stuff. Free online stuff does not feed quality. Money is the tie that binds. And free stuff binds us to advertisers. Youtube, twitter, facebook, etc, all go to paid tiers and registered accounts. Eradicate the widespread use of comments. I hate to sound like an old, but go back to established gatekeepers for commentary like well educated editors at newspapers and magazines. Everyone doesn't need a publishing platform. If that sounds class-ist I guess it kinda is, in a way. Everyone will still have access, but not everyone needs a voice because the structure to support that is corrosive as we've seen. What I think is possible: Like everything we learn mostly by making mistakes. Eventually we'll bang our heads against enough walls to find our way out. In a generation or two people will discount online speech. Already the youngs are discounting facebook. There will always be bullying, in person or online. There will always be fraud, in person or online. "Education" isn't a magic wand to sprinkle smart dust over the population. Again, even smart people make fundamental and sometimes existential mistakes. The best we can do is make it harder for those shitty things to happen by performing tourniquets to the flow of free channels that feed online malignant cancer.