The trolls are winning the battle for the Internet

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-cannot-let-the-internet-trolls-win/2015/07/16/91b1a2d2-2b17-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html?tid=sm_tw

Are these people new to the internet, because that's what it was like even before this new fangled web hyperthingy.