This comment, and your downstream replies are very clearly against the guidelines here. In particular, it is flamebait. You're effectively guaranteeing that this whole thread gets flagged and buried.
Assuming the parent comment is correct, editing the subject comments (which I haven't read) to be a dot is very respectable. I write a lot of comments that would start flame wars. The extent to which I succeed in not starting them is the extent to which I delete them.
This is a great example of how these massive for-profit companies can be actively harmful to the public good. I'm not sure how to combat these issues, which are genuine challenges against freedom everywhere, but perhaps stronger oversight from our elected leaders should be involved, the way Congress is able to put a check on our public institutions.
How about treating the root problem (that there are masses enough of people talking about it to trigger more benign mechanisms) instead of just demanding that they sweep it under the rug?
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