There is also the attraction of flattery. You can become so enamoured with a tool that you put it onto everything: Everything is a nail when you have a super-hammer. To avoid this make-believing, we need pre-commitments — not merely air cover saying that we will do something with people’s input, but boundaries on what government may do. Even if a popular vote demands censorship of everything online, government pre-commits not to do it, not because we are good people but because we know it would be fatal.