Thanks for the thoughtful treatment. It's absolutely a can of worms, with no obvious best answers. The distinction (whether intended in Gates' source or of my

Thanks for the thoughtful treatment. It's absolutely a can of worms, with no obvious best answers. The distinction (whether intended in Gates' source or of my own mind) I find interesting is between veracity and velocity. Like you, I have enormous problems with deploying censorship to completely obliterate any type of thought from readable form. I see it as society's job to target the demand (the reader's desires and education), not the supply (the writer). If people want to start believing crackpots in large numbers, well, maybe society needs to look to its basic education systems... That said, velocity is somewhat of a trickier matter. As a thought exercise, what would the net effect be if Facebook implemented systems that resulted in misinformation being slowed? I.e. I share {link}, it takes x1.5 base time to propagate to my friends' feeds. The information would still be available, and shared, but the viral velocity would also be reduced. (Note: Of the available options, delay-only seems far preferable than anything else that could lead to a de facto shadowban)