A part of me wishes social networks would just fade away, bringing back the days of old-school forums—segregated but far more manageable than the chaotic and uncontrollable discourse we see online today, which ends up influencing the masses.

Cancel culture needs to go. It simply needs to dissolve and be gone. Cancel culture isn’t about accountability as much as people would like to think it is. It is just targeted harassment toward those you disagree with, and therefore a way to control/silence the masses on certain subjects that go against prevailing beliefs. There are cases where people do need to speak up and point to an entity that a person’s remarks are completely in violation of X or Y. But that’s not cancel culture—that’s literally the common way of raising concerns about an individual and how they represent society while affiliated with an organization.

It is coercion dressed up as virtue.

It bothers me. The moment someone tries to solve something, it will always be seen as a violation of free speech. But it also opens up a limitless amount of possibilities. You can call me whatever you want—the reason social networks need to go is simple: they are a worldwide forum of constant misinformation and disinformation from bad actors, even foreign adversaries.

This isn’t far from the truth. It happens on Reddit, and it happens on X. We’ve seen it with our own eyes—when extraordinary events happen, social media becomes such a radioactive place that all you see is people from left to right making as many posts as possible to gaslight or steer public opinion about what’s happening.

Social media, along with news organizations, needs to be extremely regulated in the way they distribute or moderate information to the public. Social media needs to stop incentivizing content creators who incite or deliberately target groups of people. Regulation isn’t censorship—it’s a safeguard for a healthier society.