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Originally Posted by Slava
I do think that there is a sentiment that these types of comments "come with the territory" and I just plain disagree. People can be angry, and upset. They can disagree vehemently and absolutely can and should voice that disagreement. But the name calling, thinly veiled threats and behaviour like that shouldn't be tolerated.
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They aren't tolerated. Pretty much all sensible people agree that they're inexcusable. But that isn't going to stop them from being posted. The internet is open to miserable d-bags who hide behind anonymity to vent their anger at the world. No amount of social disapproval is going to change their behaviour. So where does that leave us?
- We abandon the model of an open, public internet and resort to secure private networks.
- We recognize that no matter how repugnant we find it, public forums and platforms are going to have awful things said in them.