The threat is on the internet, and needs specificity to become a local law enforcement problem. There is a disconnect between threats and the response to investigate, and people fear reporting threats. For most people in most instances, encountering a bully translates to the best move is to slink away for fear of reprisal.

A system of reporting, investigation, and sanctions - accountability, fines, visits from LE, discussions with parents - is needed.

With freedom comes responsibility is not very relevant anymore.

One step at a time, over the line.

But the girls and young women who talked [w/the killer] online [...] rarely reported him. His threats seemed too vague, [...] One teen who reported [him on]Yubo said nothing happened as a result.

Some also suspected this was just how teen boys talked on the Internet these days — a blend of rage and misogyny so predictable they could barely tell each one apart. One girl, discussing moments when he had been creepy and threatening, said that was just “how online is.”

If girls didn't respond like he wanted, he'd threatened rape or murder, then laugh it off.

Open misogyny, belittling, verbal debasement, and gaslighting.
American men are allowed to have an abuser mindset. American Conservative men are masters of deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.

The Internet is rife with incel anti women hatred. AND OUR GIRLS EXPECT THIS.

This has to change, too. Hate speech is violence.

of patriarchy, the dominant male culture, is so deeply entrenched as to seem almost unreachable.

But there must be a way.

And parents of girls need to teach them to respect themselves

But you can’t easily change thousands of years of religious and societal misogyny or patriarchy.