That's a good point, and actually the heart of the issue, and what I missed. In my analogy the stable sidewalk that can hold the milk crate is both the platfor

That's a good point, and actually the heart of the issue, and what I missed. In my analogy the stable sidewalk that can hold the milk crate is both the platform and the optimization algorithm. But to your point there's actually a lot more going on with the optimization than just building a place where any rando can market self-asphyxiation. It's about how they willfully targeted people with that content.