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You are posting this on something which can only be described as "social media".

There is enormous value in letting humans communicate freely through the internet and any harm which comes from the misuse needs to be very carefully weighed against the benefits.

By the way, fossile fuels are partly responsible for the greatest uplift in human quality of life. Pesticides are essential in creating a sustainable food output.

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Collectively, "social media" is basically everything that allows interactive expression and evolution of different opinions online. The manipulation of Big Social is simply a deterrent to that process, in effect it's a tool against good social media.

> any harm which comes from the misuse needs to be very carefully weighed against the benefits.

Also, misuse can be addressed in different ways, blanket bans and surveillance-enabling authentication are misuse themselves.

> By the way, fossile fuels are partly responsible for the greatest uplift in human quality of life. Pesticides are essential in creating a sustainable food output.

Yeah, and they are not sentient beings we owe something in return to.

When they were useful we used them. Now that they’re more harmful than useful we stop using them.

I don’t understand the moralizing around that.

And Carrie Nation was hypocritical for entering bars. The world isn't black and white enough for such gotchas to work.

maybe this person is really trying to make this point

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