Misogyny lives, and the internet is giving it too much oxygen

The only way to stop poison spewing from hate sites is to shut them down and deny the cover of anonymity to potential perpetrators. That would be a noble outcome of the horrific Toronto tragedy.

Toronto police Const. Ken Lam, right, pictured on April 23, confronting Alek Minassian, 25, of Richmond Hill, Ont., who was arrested after a white van killed 10 and injured people on a busy stretch of Yonge Street in north Toronto.Screenshot

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

April 30, 2018

OTTAWA—Misogyny lives. And the internet is giving it too much oxygen. While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is being called to account by governments around the world for political misuse of social media intel, a bigger issue looms in cyberspace. Normal platforms of discourse are governed by le...

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