It's because you talked about elite, in a pejorative way. As if the elected politicians and the appointed judges that pass the laws interpret them to protect people from themselves and others, are somehow unnecessary.No, I don't understand. Please explain.
PS: Just in case this reply could be misunderstood I write this PS; I really don't understand why do you find the argument disingenuous, and I ask you to please explain to me why do you think it is, if that' fine with you, because there is no intent for the argument to be disingenuous at all, it is a trend in behavior (regarding censorship) that I believe I am seeing in western society that is sincerely worrying me... I believe this behavior is similar to what I have seen in China and Russia for decades and that worries me, I don't like that.
If you don't understand how society works, then I don't think we can have a meaningful conversation. I thought you were faking it.
There is a balance of course, in Russia you cannot speak about anything other than what the government wants you to believe. I didn't propose that, any more than someone trying to ban porn that depicts rape or torture of seemingly unwilling participants, is trying to ban all porn.