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Amyphist's avatar

When I heard you'd signed up to Substack, I figured you'd be addressing this issue sooner or later... good idea to deal with it upfront straight away.

It's only tangential to this essay, but I'd be interested in your thoughts on treating 'platforms' as publishers. Personally, I'm all for it. I guess that makes me whatever the opposite of a 'free-speech fundamentalist' is; but as far as I'm concerned, Facebook/Twitter/etc should be legally liable for every single piece of hate, libel and disinformation on their sites exactly as if Mark Zuckerberg/Jack Dorsey/etc had published it themselves.

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Max Asher Miller's avatar

I wish this were Medium so I could like this piece 50x.

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