Jason, by referring to harassment as “ideas that they don’t like or agree with” or “calling someone an asshole,” you are trivializing the very real abuse many people experience online. Victims of online harassment are not asking for everyone to change their avatar to Mickey Mouse and exclusively tweet the lyrics of “It’s A Small World,” they are asking not to get stalked in the Disneyland parking lot.

I’m also concerned with your trust in “the criminal and court system we’ve spent two hundred years refining here in the greatest nation in the world” — the same justice system that lately has been under heavy scrutiny for failing to indict officers who repeatedly shoot unarmed citizens. Even if you assume good intentions, our laws and training for law enforcement have been painfully slow at adapting to the age of the internet. Harassment victims often report having to explain simple tech concepts to obliviousness police departments that were never trained how online tools and platforms work (such as how it could be possible to find someone’s address via Instagram).

As you said yourself, “We live in these services every day of our lives.” We should be able to live without fear of stalking, harassment, and death threats — which is way worse than the fear of not being able to call everyone an asshole.