There was a certain naïveté in the world. Of course, the Sunflower itself is a backlash against that over-naive assumption. At the time though, it was difficult to convince our democratic partners to take this as a serious threat to democracy, to see some social media platform designs as fundamentally antisocial. To see some connectivity as fundamentally asymmetric and therefore bad for the health of the democracy as a whole.

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