For me I would hold the social media companies more to account when it comes to hate speech and harassment online and force social media companies to do more to stop online harassment and hate speech.
For me I would hold the social media companies more to account when it comes to hate speech and harassment online and force social media companies to do more to stop online harassment and hate speech.
As in banning the accounts that are constantly being used to harass people and perhaps maybe ip banning them if they continue to try doing this.
IP bans usually don’t work well on the modern internet. Many ISPs use CG-NAT with very rapidly changing IPs shared by many users. Places like college dorms are the worst.
Looking up which accounts stem from which IP is also a moderate invasion of privacy.
The usual issues with “banning the accounts that are constantly being used to harass people” are:
Clearly defining harassment vs legitimate discussion
Figuring out who’s actually being unreasonable - is one party being baited into responding, then that response is reported?
Having enough staffing
Not really. You can store the IP only when you actually have ban-worthy content from an account and then compare that to the IP for subsequent requests to enforce the ban. The IPs of everyone communicating with your service are required for that very communication so they will be on your system anyway and you are only really required to store it for the person who already demonstrated ban-worthy behaviour in which case this is the minimal step you can take as far as privacy invasion goes (as opposed to e.g. trying to figure out their identity from their IP) if you want to enforce the ban at all.
I agree that IP bans just aren’t effective any more though due to CGNAT and IPv6 Privacy Extensions among other things.