Those are all great points, but it's not all that simple, because of the Paradox of Tolerance (Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), and others

Those are all great points, but it's not all that simple, because of the Paradox of Tolerance (Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), and others). And those values of yours (and I guess, mine too) are probably even more bottom wing than left wing : and as you well know there have been scores of left wing anti-liberal regimes in the last two centuries, with plenty of disastrous results. (With the extra issue that 'liberal' also sometimes stands for right-wing, under a quite different meaning.) ---- And I'm not a saint, so there's also aspects of both lashing out because social trends make you feel like in a box that is closing in, and also self-flagellation because of sometimes being tempted into using platforms (with their addictive features and social benefits). (Also of course some platforms are less problematic than others. Also, there's an extra aspect when most of the platforms are from a foreign country (USA) that has been sliding in an anti-liberal direction (on their 'left' too) for many decades now. Why tolerate these platforms when you don't even have indirect democratic control over their companies ?) But yeah, compassion and "cultivate your own garden first".