Every tool can be used in two ways: to build or to destroy.
All healthy and sustainable relationships require building a shared vision. With two people this is a matter of finding someone compatible, who is easy to communicate with freely. With larger communities it involves creating structures and routines that enable free and effective communication; especially with people we are not compatible with.

Social media is a tool.
Social media can be used as a tool for people to build shared visions, or as a weapon to keep people from building shared visions. To be used as a tool for building shared visions all users must be trained into the same styles and routines of interaction. As a weapon, trolls and other agitators will go to great lengths to disrupt people’s style and routines. Users must have discipline and respect, not just for other people, but for the very structure they use to communicate by. Exactly the same as how a person safely and effectively drives on public roads; being respectful of the rules as well as other people on the roadway.

Similarly, the structures and routines that guide effective online communication cannot be created by laws and legislation alone, as that is the primary way in which institutions use social media as a weapon. On the roadway, laws govern how people use the road, not which cars they can drive or where they can go. Laws that are too specific in social media are designed to prevent certain ideas from ever reaching their destination. (Governments and corporations becoming too heavy handed in an effort to guarantee all conversations end at approved, sanctioned, and profitable destinations.) The structures and rules of online communication must be trained and nurtured into people as part of a global culture.

To build a global community:
A global community will only emerge after the global population is able to, and allowed to, build a shared vision. The only thing that will create this environment is a global religion that nurtures and trains people into the healthy, disciplined, and effective practices of online communication. Just as parents and communities must nurture people into healthy, disciplined, and sustainable practices that create their real world relationships.

From our culture we learn who to speak to and who to avoid; how to maintain our focus and our perspective; and how to regain our balance if we should fall. Laws cannot do that.