I get what you're saying, because you might have a lot to say about topics in comment sections where it matters and in topics you know a lot about. But there's

I get what you're saying, because you might have a lot to say about topics in comment sections where it matters and in topics you know a lot about. But there's some comment sections where you say something and it gets filtered out. What say you after this? I'm sure you're aware of shadow banning/filtering, which YouTube at least does, perhaps other large platforms. Maybe a case in point. There was a referendum in Scotland about independence from the UK. There was a very prominent blog ranked in Google regarding the question of aye/nay, but you found that the comments were moderated towards one disposition. If all the funnels point to that information source, the comments are almost useless, especially so if they're curated towards one conclusion. We're relying on a middle man (or many middle men) offering a variety of conclusions which we should reach ourselves, rather than one hand delivered to us by one or two algorithms and/or social engineering. Diversity, basically, not just in results, but opinions and conclusions.