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 people using a tool for bad, more often than not, has little do with the person that created a tool.

i’m sure a pencil has been used to stab someone in the eye. But was the creator of the pencil at fault ?

trying to eradicate private speech in digital space is a poor and unsophisticated method to eradicate pedos from the earth; and i’d be highly suspicious of it being the real reason 
 Rabble will always believe that centralised authorities are needed to protect people from the bad that happens in the world, and no amount of hypotheticals or real world case studies will convince someone like him otherwise.

The challenge and tension comes because individualists understand that perspective, but the collectivists can never understand the perspective in reverse. 
 Your assumption may be right but it may also be wrong. 
 Cheers Geoff