

My main problem with social media is that the users are the product.
So perhaps we should take it a step further and clarify that posts by a user are the property of that user, and they cannot be used for marketing, placed behind a paywall, etc without the express permission by and reasonable compensation to the user. If the platform is nonprofit, there’s no compensation to share. The platform can show or hide content as it sees fit, but it must share revenue.
The creator then takes full legal responsibility for their posts.
Or something along those lines.
I think it is. Public figures like these become representatives of the ideas they’re known for. We care about Ghandi’s nonviolence, not his racism or weird sexual nonsense. The further back in history you go, the less their personal lives matter.
If you’re making a movie or writing a book about them, sure, display their failures as well. But a person doing bad things doesn’t make the great things they did any less great.