I'm starting to think that any communications model where one person has ultimate unchecked authority over anywhere from hundreds to millions of other people is inherently fucked because the incentives for scummy behavior by that top person and disincentives against scummy behavior are too overwhelming to ignore.

If there's a way forward it's gonna have to be some kind of decentralized shit where one guy at the top can't say "I'm sick of letting alla these people say whatever they feel like all the time, today were gonna get rid of [whatever fucking thing people say that pisses me off]" because anyone, no matter how well-intentioned, will eventually have that day, and then another one of those days, and then more of those days, and then they'll quit and be replaced by someone who has those days all the time.