| There are people who simply cannot effectively defend themselves. They don't have the knowledge. They're visually disabled. They've got cognitive decline, for whatever reasons. And the scams and attacks keep coming. Generally not trolls, so much, though that can be a thing as well. I'm not completely against there being some wild corners of the Internet (though you might want to take a look at some of danah boyd's recent writing on 4chan and /b/, and what grew from them, and why, and how), but there's a rather large part of it that really has no business being like that. People get hurt. Money and life savings are lost. Not everyone's a street-wise, healthy and hale 24 year old. |