We already accept speed bumps for dangerous velocity. Stock exchanges halt trading market-wide when the S&P 500 drops 7, 13, or 20 percent in a day. Nobody calls circuit breakers censorship. They exist because everyone understands that panicked speed destroys value faster than deliberation can repair it. NYSE Viral outrage is the same physics applied to information: anger accelerates sharing past the point where accuracy can catch up. A prompt before sharing a red-hot unopened link is a circuit breaker for the feed. Markets get them because money is at stake. The public square deserves at least as much engineering as the stock ticker.
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