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An aspect worth considering: everyone with a large investment in civil society is opposed to murderous vigilantism, and while that includes the economic 1%, the fellow CEOs, the Media Industrial Complex*, et al., it also includes a much more boring demographic: simple, decent folk who are opposed to violence and law-breaking.

The status quo behaviour of Stack Exchange and others is pandering, but it’s just as likely to be pandering to mom and pop as it is to Musk and Murdoch.

* tongue-in-cheek




This doesn't take away from your point, but what defines violence? I recently asked this to someone here but unfortunately did not get an answer [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42566862




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