I feel like at least part of the issue is that the internet is a different kind of public than everywhere else. it's not transient, and it's not limited to the

I feel like at least part of the issue is that the internet is a different kind of public than everywhere else. it's not transient, and it's not limited to the people who happened to be in the same part of public as you at the same time. instead it's a fully-automatable, permanent record that is 100% available to all present and future humans. that deserves consideration to my mind.