Technology

Let me put this in simpler terms. Forums have existed for thousands of years. Let's go back to Roman times. They're speaking in forums, talking to each other, etc. Then one dude decides to start his own forum where he's gonna bring CSAM or worse to the forum and start sharing it with others, they even might start doing plays. The Roman government cracks down and says that everyone who is engaging in any sort of communication needs to start registering with the government in order to even talk to each other. That even includes letters and books, public government meetings, plays, etc. Even though they're all completely different scenarios. The only similarity here is that people are communicating.

That's the situation we're in right now. The government decided to use the word forum (social media) to be a boogeyman to regulate talking (forums) and disguised it as regulating bad guys, even though the law literally applies to all forms of communication. They hijacked the word forum (social media) and expanded it to mean everything: plays, books, letters, stores, meetings (streaming sites, encyclopedias, blogs).

Take the word back. Stop using forum (social media) to mean the world. It has a specific meaning. Use it appropriately.