So are people.
DarkHexad intent { Narcissism / Machiavellianism / Sociopathy-Psychopathy / Nihilism / Sadism / Systemic-Dishonesty } is significant a fraction in human-nature, itself,
and the internet does represent that,
as does the last few millenia of human history, tbh.
The only way to have a clean space, is to force break DarkHexad grip on that space.
It’s exactly the same with your body’s health:
IF you want to break the pathogens from sharing your body’s life,
THEN you have to BREAK them from owning any territory in your body’s life.
Pretending & “making nice” on them won’t break their grasp/control of all they own/control.
Exactly as Western Medicine holds that whole-health isn’t a valid condition, but illness, injury, & death are,
therefore one treats illness, injury, & death with drugs or procedures,
there simply isn’t ANY method for producing whole-health in a paradigm which axiomatically prohibits that that could be valid.
You want whole-health?
Become a true yogi.
Harness/yoke ( “yoga” means “to yoke”, or “to harness” ) your entire life to whole-health, & discover what drugs & procedures cannot make.
The same is true of clean spaces, online ( I mean places where machaivellian evil gets auto-broken from them, there’s no requirement that “clean” mean “all spaces are child-friendly” ).
IF you want clean social-site,
THEN you need combined arms ( all dimensions of force, convergion to enforce victory ) making that, against the machiavellians & corrupt-values people.
That requires easy server-setup.
That requires easy administration.
That requires easy moderation.
That requires easy community-management.
That requires easy onboarding for good people,
AND easy step-by-step breaking of the malevolent ones, with proper powerlaw escalations.
That requires accountability ( machiavellians consistently disappear any evidence that would threaten them with accountability, while trying to drown others ) that is both automatic & unbreakable.
etc.
Without a cat’s skeleton, no matter what musculature you put on your non-cat skeleton, you can’t make it be a cat, in how it moves.
You want a cat’s liquidity-of-motion?
You require, then, skeleton, musculature, AND nervous-system of cat, for your animal…
You want clean/healthy portion-of-internet?
ALL dimensions, technological, legislative, admin, moderation, users, processes, EVERYthing needs to be “combined arms” breaking the pathogen-intents from possessing it.
And because of the neverending arms-race between corruption/malevolence vs good, that needs to keep continually adapting, agilely.
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Your question is actually a subset of:
“Can short-term-gain actually fatally undermine long-term-viability?”
I don’t consider the question incorrect, at all.
Peter F. Drucker, in one of his books, has it that the “Health Care Industry” hired him,
and one of the 1st things he did, was…
told them, bluntly to their face, directly, approximately that
( this gets the gist of it, but this is from-memory, not exact/verbatim )
“You aren’t the Health Care Industry, you are the Illness Care Industry, and you aren’t fooling anybody, AND you aren’t improving your credibility by speaking falsely”
Does taking all kinds of chemicals, so that one can be a “better bodybuilder”, and then ending up in a population who dies significantly younger than average, due to heart-failures, be considered “good”??
Obviously, to the corporate-“persons” who make money having as much of the population addicted to that distortion as possible, YES!! PROFITS!!
Unfortunately, it isn’t possible, in any political system, to get decisions made by correctness, accuracy, reason, objectivity, maximum-benefit-for-greatest-number-of-dimensions-of-the-population, etc…
The lobbies won’t allow that.
Remember Covid?
Remember the people who were insisting that immunization was a scam, & that people should be relying on their body’s innate robust immune-system?
These were people who consider yogic-living to be corruption, and heavy-meat-eating to be “good”, nitrates in meats, & all.
The lobbies have overrun all discussion, not allowing objectivity to own any territory.
I think you are right, but the right-answer to it includes simultaneously improving the health of individuals, of entire-populations, AND getting people out immersed in nature more, so as to have built-up more-powerful immune-systems, in the 1st place!
Selectively extinguish some infectious-diseases ( I’d target rabies, ebola, HPV because it causes cervical cancer, & a few others, for extinguishment ), while dealing-with as many as we viably can,
in the hopes that “surprises” will not be able to trash/wreck our innate immune-systems, see?
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