whether it should be normal misses the fact that it currently is normal for one side, and unless you fight fire with fire everyone will continue to act rationally when only one side is offering consequences for going against them

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the fact that you frame this as some obviously absurd hypothetical and not something that has basically already happened is a pretty good indicator you just do not understand the current situation and woke up from a 15 year coma or something bsky.app/profile/masn...

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also the optics of investigations are about grandstanding and the bully pulpit, sure, but they also can actually be for the purpose of investigating to see if there was in fact wrongdoing when there facially appears to possibly be some, so bsky.app/profile/asha...

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when a side defects without consequence you are now playing a fundamentally rigged game and the only way to fix it is to ensure defectors are punished in such a way that they learn there are consequences to all their choices

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the problem with takes like this is they assume the behavior of zuck et al is somehow irrational/political/etc, when in fact it's an extremely rational choice when your options are "get strung up (metaphorically, possibly literally)" vs "nothing, maybe someone says something mean about you once"

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