[5o1ecist]

> Just to be clear -- we aren't "forcing" anyone to behave. We are trying to "nudge" and "educate".

Sure! I could believe that, but there's no reason to do so. Promises and stated intentions mean nothing. You can easily change your mind, or eventually be replaced by someone who thinks differently. Or, you know, as indicated by your questionable usage of quotation marks ... simply not be honest about it.

> I also believe that if I have a blog with comments, it's perfectly fine for me to set the rules about discourse on my blog. Right?

"False equivalency is a logical fallacy where two subjects are incorrectly considered equivalent based on flawed reasoning, often oversimplifying their differences. It typically occurs when a shared trait is assumed to indicate equality, despite significant differences in context or magnitude."

Of course! A blog is definitively absolutely comparable to a social website visited by tens of thousands of people every day. Right?

You are not being honest. You hide the true meaning of the words behind quotation marks. If you actually meant what you're writing, then you would not need to use the quotation marks.

Instead it's "nudging" and "educating", because you know exactly that what that thing is going to do is NOT nudging and educating, it's whatever meaning you hide behind these quotation marks.