yes
words and ideas have direct, measurable, and often outsized impact on the world. We know this to be true, see the 20th century for reference. Websites host, platform, and syndicate these at scales never before possible.
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and it seems to hold that because the internet makes it so much easier for ideas and words to reach scale, we should expect them to do a whole lot more then they did last century. and that should scare us into thinking carefully about how we design platforms to protect instituo
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so like yes, extremely so. Websites can be as dangerous to democracy as the words they hold.
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