Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
by colechristensen on Friday March 01, 2019 @04:57PM
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...and people have been jerks since there were people, I am not implying that people being unpleasant was created by anonymous commenting.
However there would be quite a bit of backpressure against certain kinds of Internet toxicity if people were less anonymous.
One factor is that once one person begins attack another person, both using real names, both people have a hard time backing down, especially if they know each in real life or if they are semi-public figures. For a lot of people, admitting that they are wrong is a huge hurdle - and these tend to be the people who engage in toxicity in the first place.