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Maybe perhaps we could try to raise the level of discourse across the board? Why does it have to be a cess pool at all?

We really have to do something to reduce the firehose of twitter/FB bots and trolls with no accountability. It's like the old days of email spam, but with targetted abuse and harassment.

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The problem is that the only thing you can do is limit free speech, and that has far worse implications than just dealing with the trolls. Silencing people based on their opinions, however much you may disagree with those opinions, will lead always result in dystopia.

Weaponizing children can go in both directions. Isn't it abuse and harassment telling children that they're doomed, that they have no future, that earth will be ruined in 10 years?

If crime increases in the neighborhood, do you tell your children they're going to die? No, you tell them to be careful, to follow some simple, easy-for-them rules, and that things will be fine.

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