Interesting chat. I just read Lauren Collins’s reporting on Megan Meier’s suicide in the New Yorker. This line pulled my attention:

“Tina [Meier] says that she called the police to try to find out whether Josh was legitimate, to no avail.”

And here’s one of your responses from the chat:

“If you find something bad on a website about yourself or your child, contact the author of that site and ask for it to be taken down. Hopefully, they will comply.”

It’s clear as I argued in my PONAR proposal, is that the average person often has great difficulty determining the author of harmful speech online, and how to contact them. There should be an extralegal way of doing so.