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It's astonishing to me that people are actually calling for censoring all social media... like honestly, do you not see any of the good that social media does? E.g. Youtube democratized people's voices.

Social media is a great equilizer and great contributor to the democratization of society writ large.

We don't have just Facebook or just Twitter or just Youtube. There are tons of social media platforms on the internet - those are simply the most popular. The younger generations don't even use Facebook, they consider it a boomer platform.

> why do we need to have just Facebook or just Twitter or just Youtube?

We don't, but that's the way network effects work. They create a high barrier to entry, with no obvious remedy short of dictating which social networks people can use.