I'm easy enough to find elsewhere if you want to continue the debate. However: Bad behavior tends to scale with size. I've run small community forums (I run

I'm easy enough to find elsewhere if you want to continue the debate. However: Bad behavior tends to scale with size. I've run small community forums (I run one now), and beyond spammers, there hasn't been a moderation problem - it's just too small for people to bother making a nuisance of themselves, and they wouldn't be invited to stick around long anyway. I would rather see a return to smaller, fragmented communities on the internet than the single centralized platforms we've settled on. They just work better. This would, sadly, require anti-monopoly agencies to do something other than sit around with their "Yes, sure, go ahead and buy that company out, whatever..." stamp. As for some of the other stuff you're asking about, I'm not familiar enough with the details of the events to be able to offer an informed opinion - sorry. I would like to think that the internet can self moderate in such a way that the governments are not forced to moderate things, and cannot do so even if they wish to do it, but... that seems a less likely future as time goes on.