@alice I was reading something about how the "great firewall of China" operates the other day. They don't block criticism of the government, they block anything that starts to mobilise people to action or cause any sort of community sentiment. The article closed with a question of the was this sort of censorship in the west that we don't know about. I am pondering if this sort of reply guy thing is acting in a similar way to Chinese censorship. That is, squashing community movement before it starts. I also wonder if this is an organised squashing or purely self inflicted by society by accident (but still being leveraged by those with power for sure).