I think a lot of the fear that's happening is fundamentally because there are big misconceptions of what the internet is all about. The internet is not a nicely packaged lined up row of books in a library where everything's organized by the Dewey Decimal System and everything is published by a handful of publishers that control all of it. The internet is a mirror of society. People who are criminals are going to be on there. There are going to be people on there where you just cannot understand where they're coming from, and that'll scare some people. . . .
Society is complex, and it's often very messy.
And I think people just have to deal with that, roll up their sleeves, and jump in and just get involved and try to fix things that are broken, and accept the fact that other people are going to say that things you don't like a lot of times. The internet itself was constructed with this idea that we were all going to be nice to each other. All of the standards and all of the protocols assume, basically, that no one is going to lie or cheat or steal. It was designed basically for the US government in planning a war, and then it was co-opted by scientists to coordinate research. And there was really no effort made early on to insulate that, or to protect against people who just are outside the trust model, people who just want to go in and see what they can do, and they just don't care.