> Too frequently, the people writing about this and the politicians talking about it really just want to be the ones to set the line on what is "toxic" and "off

> Too frequently, the people writing about this and the politicians talking about it really just want to be the ones to set the line on what is "toxic" and "offensive" and have a very strong desire to influence what Google and these other companies should censor. I've definitely seen this pattern from people. It's rarely overt, but I do see demands that others "punch down" or that "toxic" things be treated a certain way. This is always coupled with an implicit assumption that there's some clearly understood definition of what those mean that just happens to be exactly what the person using those idioms would offer. Like you, I think this pattern suggests people trying to grab for the privilege of writing definitions.