It's a patch a best, and I wager many people here see the side effects already on the horizon: faulty algorithms tagging actual information as misinformation, n

It's a patch a best, and I wager many people here see the side effects already on the horizon: faulty algorithms tagging actual information as misinformation, news organizations continuing to skid by while spewing misleading claims, videos and channels deleted without recourse. All of this is painful. Youtube's ineptitude specifically has been painful to content creators in the past. Censorship of a "public" forum is always immensely painful, and heavy handed attempts by Mega Corporations at controlling public discourse always feel dystopian. The most painful aspect of it all is that I have come to personally agree with these measures, purely as an immediate firefighting response. But this is not a solution. As a society, our mental immune system is weak against disinformation and even the most obvious unscientific propaganda. These traits are even welcomed by the powerful in other contexts, that's why it's such a big deal that the people who started those fires are so closely related to those putting them out right now.