If there is a hierarchy of increasingly private spaces, IE, spaces where people who have great influence over the community can admit that they don’t like the wreaking ouroboros consenses that are emerging and then decisively breach the consensus with a series of well aimed “calm down”s, that’s the sort of community that wouldn’t tend to have runaway repressive consensus problems unless those central people were letting them happen on purpose, and in what sorts of circumstance would they want to do that? My mind only goes to… well they did that in 1984, but of course that community of toxic surveillance was fictional and intuitively implausible in size and longevity.
If there is a hierarchy of increasingly private spaces, IE, spaces where people who have great influence over the community can admit that they don’t like the wreaking ouroboros consenses that are emerging and then decisively breach the consensus with a series of well aimed “calm down”s, that’s the sort of community that wouldn’t tend to have runaway repressive consensus problems unless those central people were letting them happen on purpose, and in what sorts of circumstance would they want to do that? My mind only goes to… well they did that in 1984, but of course that community of toxic surveillance was fictional and intuitively implausible in size and longevity.