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I think either the Internet will self-regulate by developing a "hey let's not lynch people" norm, or the brick-and-mortar crowd will slowly develop some backbone against Twitter mobs.

I can't predict the future. But I'm a great fan of that quote: "If something can't go on this way forever...it will stop."

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Yes, that is a great quote - a lot of insight packed into a short sentence. I cannot seem to remember where I saw this said (it was a video, probably Sam Harris's podcast), but it was effectively the same idea: we're simply going to adapt in a way that allows everything to keep moving forward.

I must say that, as a developer, this answer was completely unsatisfying. It doesn't sound like a "flip a switch" kind of solution... ;-)

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