&gt; Trolls who make threats on the internet<p>See this thread:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;terraloire&#x2F;status&#x2F;686591765931921409" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;terraloire&#x2F;status&#x2F;686591765931921409</a><p>With the internet being as central to modern society as it is, instead of simply some USENET servers used by some college kids and bored sysadmins, there isn&#x27;t really a distinction between &quot;threats on the internet&quot; and &quot;threats&quot; any more. (This is not to say that there&#x27;s no longer a distinction between &quot;idle threats&quot; and &quot;serious threats&quot;, of course, just that whether they&#x27;re on the internet is not a determiner of them being idle.)<p>&gt; (and if they aren&#x27;t - what kind of stuff are you spewing out that makes so many people waste their time getting angry with you?)<p>&quot;Normal&quot; people get angry when they feel threatened. If you are challenging the status quo, it&#x27;s not unusual for people who benefit from the status quo to get angry at you. This has been true for all of history, and arguing that you shouldn&#x27;t upset the supporters of the status quo is quite literally arguing that Twitter should not be a platform for free speech.<p>It honestly sounds to me like you&#x27;re approaching this from first principles &#x2F; intuition, instead of any data (or analyses of data, which exist) about how internet harassment actually works.