Ya this whole thread is weird. Either
1) peoples opinions about the net have changed drastically in a very short amount of time
2) this thread is an anomaly
3) This thread is being turfed
All of these make me uneasy
All of these make me uneasy
Other things that have changed my opinions about the nature of speech on the internet are what's happening with american politics, anti-vaccination conspiracies and a bunch of other instances in which our wonderful tools of mass communication cause negative outcomes, either through directed propaganda or through simply connecting hoards of morons together.
Tech utopianism seems to be waning.