You are correct that it was a lot of astroturfed political wrangling. But the visionaries back then were correct to worry about it. If you were to project curre

You are correct that it was a lot of astroturfed political wrangling. But the visionaries back then were correct to worry about it. If you were to project current trends out 100 years from now, one could conceive of a future where these platforms are much more powerful and the politically correct of the future subjugate everyone else by stunting their intellectual development via administrations of cheap content at higher speeds or higher recommendation frequency than the quality stuff, simply because you hate someone's religion or color or sexuality or view and wish to reduce their viability. It may not be a problem now, but if the platform power goes up then so does the risk that we need to have these systems being built now.