That's a very interesting question. I hadn't heard it expressed in quite that way. Let me take a minute....
I think that a lot of the rise in off-line violence coincides with the rise of violent extremists or violent speech online. These trends are interlinked, with the online environment creating these opportunities for greater off-line expressions of violence.
There's a difference between regulating lawful speech and regulating violent speech. The platforms have...it's written in their own terms of service that they do not permit violent speech, yet violet speech on these platforms goes, maybe not unabated, but it certainly slips through the cracks quite significantly. My organization has done research showing how, even now, there's a rise in violent speech on many platforms.
I don't think it's coincidental that you then have greater numbers and incidents of violence targeting communities that are in the crosshairs online. I don't think that pushing people off-line will necessarily lead to our not being able to monitor or understand how these violent phenomena are expressed. However, I think we need to get a handle on the environments in which people are coming together to feed off one another. That's not happening exclusively online, but by and large, it's happening online.