It's society's problem because society is better for the Internet existing. I don't think that's a seriously disputable point outside of basic contrarianism. For all its faults, society today is better than it was 40-50 years ago on almost every measurable axis. We've made faster progress on human rights in the past 40-50 years than we did in the first 150-160 years of our country's history. We know more about the wider world now than we ever did. More minority communities have mainstream voices now then ever did in the past.

We should, of course, try to improve the Internet; there's plenty wrong with it. We certainly don't want to stay where we are now. But we are a better world because we are more connected. Getting rid of the Internet because "other systems don't get a pass" would be cutting off our own nose to spite our face. As a society, we have a vested interest in a democratizing platform that allows ordinary people to publish information and coordinate on an unprecedented scale.

So if a set of standards don't allow the globalized democratizing communication platform to exist, then the standards are wrong.