✒ The author talked about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — a piece of US legislation passed in 1996 which has been dubbed the “26 words that created the internet” because it gave platforms (internet forums) legal immunity from any third party content they published — and how some people recommended amending such so that platforms could be given a certain notice period after receiving complaint about any given content.
In social media, “we are all lumped together and expected to be happy with the way everyone else is behaving despite the fact that they might have entirely different values and sensitivities, not to mention sense of humour, from us.”
Author’s conclusion:
“If we want to stop the internet becoming either a desperately bland or perfectly horrible place, we need to start treating it as somewhere we would be happy spending time in real life. That includes imposing moral and social consequences for behaving like an idiot.”