Editor’s Letter: Reduce The Fear Factor

It’s been a grim few weeks online. Murders streamed live, continued stories of social networks being manipulated to influence elections, and plenty of other grim stuff that isn’t ideal reading on a Sunday morning.

The easy move has been to point the finger at the technology and the powers-that-be behind it. They have opened Pandora’s Box, or rather a few of her boxes as it turns out, and have enabled those of nefarious ...