Consuming social media doesn't have an inescapable negative impact on other people, unlike burning leaded fuel. In the same way that eating junk food doesn't. Should we ban junk food? What else do you want to ban from others just because it has a risk profile you personally don't feel comfortable with?

>You in the 90s: "Leaded fuel isn't illegal guys, stop your campaigning, let's keep huffing it"

people who raised alarm about such things could easily be branded as conspiracy theorists. even now, at this very website, so full of well-educated folx, people who speak out against xenoestrogens, for example, are being downvoted to hell.

I wonder where folks like this came from, and at what point did people who associate themselves with hacker culture decide that censorship is great.

The OG hackers thought of censorship as network damage that needed to be routed around.

People who support censorship always think of themselves as smarter than the rest. Dunning-Krueger however would suggest something different.