Comment by Nevermark

Technology scales lots of things. Including business models based on conflict of interest.

There were corporate conflicts of interest with respect to customers long before technology. But it took tech to create a community scrapbook, tied to a mass surveillance, psychology hacking and coercion flywheel, powered by hundreds of billions of dollars from third parties, and motivated by trillions of dollars of potential market cap.

Something has to give. Society is eventually going to have to come to terms with the fact that minor incidents of poor behavior, when scaled up with technology, can significantly degrade society.

Many things are illegal now, that in the far past would never have been considered a problem. Scale matters. And Internet tech scales.