This is too radical a correlation. The issue is the protocol - it was designed to let colleague in academia and military to exchange messages (with all the weight of their collective social contracts bearing on their use of the system). It wasn't designed to allow sleazy characters across the globe to engage in harassment through messaging.

Maintaing 'net neutrality' in conjunction with committing to the necessity of evolving net protocols to address end user responsibility is a viable path forward. If the choice comes to rewriting software stacks or giving up certain rights, then I'm 100% on the side of the rewrite. (Its just code, after all.)