[shadowgovt]

Conundrums like this used to make my head spin.

Then I realized that nothing about moving humans online made humans magically more virtuous than they are in meatspace, and the tools we've used to audit and intercept bad-behaving humans in the real world have merit online too.

There's a reason so much motion online in the past two decades has been in the direction of "de-wild-Westing" it.

[MiroF]

It does make direct coercive power online (ie. violence) difficult. I agree with you, but I do think that the internet reduces the harm inflicted by human vices