Homework for 3/25

In the articles I read, there were 3 main solutions for the problem of online incivility. One solution is for people to learn how to be civil and act in a civil manner. This seems a bit far fetched to me because I don't believe that many people will all of a sudden just realize they are being uncivil and change their ways to act in a civil manner. Another solution that was presented stated that we need better software, or algorithms, that can catch the uncivil trolling comments or whatever it is and keep it hidden away from normal viewers. This problem seems unlikely to work due to the amount of people out there who would learn how to work around the system not to mention the fact that people would argue that it goes against our first amendment rights. The third solution i read was for online companies to create better algorithms that would stop personal attacks from hate groups like what went on in the #gamergate situation. This seems like a promising situation because if an algorithm can see that something is happening in mass, it will be easy to recognize and shut down. It would be a lot easier than noticing if 1, 2, or a few people would post something because they could easily find ways to work around bans. however if hundreds or even thousands of people were to do it, it would be quite easy to spot and catch. An idea that ive been toying around with in my head would be to have certain levels in the internet. Some cites could be blue for kid friendly then green for civil, yellow for moderately civil, and red for entirely unmonitored and could be civil or uncivil. see the green and blue coded sites would be strictly monitored for people who dont want to see anything that could be uncivil. The yellow sites would be less strictly monitored so you could find stuff that ranges from civil to mildly uncivil. the red sites would be completely unmonitored so everything found there is completely uncensored so you dont know if you will be getting civil, uncivil, or something in between.