While we're on the topic of civility, is there no enforcement of the rules of conduct in this forum? I read the Terms and Rules... "You agree to not use the Service to submit ... any Content which is defamatory, abusive, hateful, threatening, spam or spam-like, likely to offend, ..."
For the crime of suggesting civility, which you understood and openly acknowledged, I was called stupid, uppity, self righteous, entitled, and hypocritical. And the original poster was called reckless, hobby wanker, giant dismissive idiot, stupid, impatient, stupid again, and was accused of intentionally violating the ToS. [BTW, intent is very hard to prove. People click "Accept" on things like 40 page EULAs all the time, and users become inured to reading them. It's become so ridiculous that Congress has debated / proposed legislation to address the issue nationwide.]
Elon had it wrong. The issue on the Internet is not whether we have freedom of speech or not [which btw is not free, rather it was paid for by the blood of patriots]. The issue is freedom of speech under the cover of anonymity. The moment people can say anything they want in a public forum with complete anonymity, where the laws of slander and libel become impossible to enforce, the degradation of civility begins, and continues it's descent, well beyond the pale, until it's final destination is reached: anarchy. Anonymity on a massive scale is what is eroding the social fabric and undermining the social skills development of children, from very early ages. Pseudonyms are fine, so long as there are standards for identity verification, AND there is recourse under the law to subpoena the actual identity of someone who breaks the law by committing slander, libel, fraud, reckless endangerment, etc.