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There should be laws that allow to sue and effectively punish those things.

Yes, it could be abused by authorities, but it should be possible to sue someone if there are enough proof.

Big online platforms might also be able to clean a lot of trolls too.

Probably, people with mental health issues that spam fora with nonsense fifteen hours a day are judgement-proof. They have no assets to attach that would justify the effort of legal action against them.

I don’t think that juice is worth the squeeze.

Besides, imagine whatever laws you think would help here and now imagine a toxic actor making it their life mission to provoke everyone on your forum but without breaking your imagined rules. You’re back where you started but now you have overreaching laws.

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