For one thing, you’re mistaken. A big realization of hacker culture in the 90s and early 2000s was that the old forums and the like had to be heavily moderated

For one thing, you’re mistaken. A big realization of hacker culture in the 90s and early 2000s was that the old forums and the like had to be heavily moderated otherwise they digress into flame wars. Social media definitely knew this, but made their fortunes off of flame wars. We’ve realized how idealistic and out of touch with humanity we were. If everyone online was a good faith actor attempting to have intellectual dialog then I would oppose all censorship. The fact is though that bad faith and agenda driven actors dominate the public narrative, stressing all of society out in the process as they either directly, or by proxy, then the real world and daily interactions of society into a giant flame war. I care a lot more about society not being divided and these tools of connection not being used to wage large scale disinformation campaigns than I do any ideologically driven morals. We have to live in this country, this world, together.