When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Financial Services Committee last week, legislators treated the Facebook CEO like he was getting put in timeout. “Have you learned that you should not lie?” asked Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez in the tone of a scolding kindergarten teacher. Shaming the CEOs of America’s largest tech companies — Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and YouTube are the usual targets — has become all too fashionable on both sides of the political spectrum. Everyone from radio host Dennis Prager to Elizabeth Warren has no shortage of bones to pick with Big Tech, whether over political bias and censorship, screen-addicted teens, election interference, pornography, sex trafficking, or a dozen other things. Some of these concerns have limited merit — Twitter’s “learn to code” debacle, in which users were temporarily banned for joking about the employment prospects of clickbait journalists, comes to mind. Others rely on junk science and moral panic: There is no domestic sex-trafficking epidemic unless all women willfully engaged in prostitution are counted as victims. Regardless, the solutions on the table — whether antitrust investigations or a repeal of Section 230, a legal provision that shields online content providers from some liability by classifying them as platforms rather than publishers — won’t fix what’s wrong with Big Tech. That’s because the platforms are not ultimately responsible for the fact that people often abuse the powers and privileges these companies...