There were flame wars and all-out partisan conflicts. There were threats of violence and incendiary statements that in any other form would have been grounds for slander suits. Roll-your-own facts were doing a brisk business. Creative hate made big Playbucks. Cults bred as fast as bacteria. So did influencers, deepfakes, conspiracy theories, and scrollable doom-peddling. We let crazy things go, banning as few users as possible. We were an experiment in real democracy. The future had to be a level playing field, free for all voices.
