> Specifically, I think the cyberspace civilization, to the extent that it exists, has been a failure lately on "humane" in the broad sense.

I disagree. By meaningful real-world standards, the average Internet space is in fact extremely humane and polite. People will bring up the random exceptions where groups of people absolutely hate one another and these hates eventually spill over into online spaces, but that's what these are, limited exceptions. By and large, the average online interaction is potentially far more reflective of desirable human values than the ways complete strangers usually interact offline. Perhaps this is a matter of pure self-selection among a tiny niche of especially intellectually-minded folks, but even if this was the case it would still be creating an affordance that wasn't there before.

By meaningful real-world standards there are bot farms sowing dissent and literally driving people into mental illness which has already destroyed many families.

At the same time there's the Cambridge Analytica/SCL strand where a corporation literally sells election fixing services that rely on data gathered from social media accounts.

To be fair these are all extensions of political and media trends that already existed, and which online tech could amplify by some orders of magnitude.

Even so. The damage is very real.

One standard technique is to use attack bots to find a wedge issue and weaponise it by raising the temperature from both sides.

This can easily be automated now, so we're well past the point where literal humanity is the most important element.