The lines between top-down and bottom-up control are increasingly blurry. Do you mean enforcement on the content-level or on the platform-level? On the latter the enforcement is a job for politics, on the former the balance between autonomy and paternalism is a normative discussion to have.

Indeed, that is an issue. I imagine citizen-science type of Experiments, where platform designs are continuously tested and evaluated, also by participants. But that technology forces us to make decisions about information- and social environments is something we won’t get completely around?

Selective Causal Focus: Research produced and funded by tech companies often either frames problems as user-driven, or solutions as the obligation of users (E.g. community notes). Distracting us from their design, business model, interface, and other causes steering us away from their profit model