> atleast social media has no pretences about teaching you something

Are we reading the same social media? How many courses and coaches are running around?

grifting and shilling is mankinds collective yearning for wealth, fame, & fortune. it would be inhumane to silence these voices.

You have more respect for grifters on social media as humans expressing themselves than for authors of books...? That's very strange.

Doubly so because no one suggested "silencing them," they pointed out that people do presume to teach on social media. You acknowledge this but not how it relates to your original argument, you've pivoted to defending their right to speech instead of shoring up your original argument.

Books have the great advantage that they can't capture the zero attention span market and thus have not attempted to appeal to it.