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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 May 2019
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      Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Bennett Tomlin

      I generally tell people to write on their own site as opposed to platforms as a hedge against the platform going away, but it also functions against getting your account suspended for e.g. alleged TOS violations, which can be caused by adversarial action in many circumstances.https://twitter.com/BennettTomlin/status/1125393833552949249 …

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      Why I Left Medium http://bennettftomlin.com/2019/05/06/why-i-left-medium/ … pic.twitter.com/P8Mw9NUW4k
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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 May 2019
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      Some genres of adversarial action are “You are in de facto competion with others covering the same beat for distribution by the platform and they may allege TOS violations to decrease competition for their content” and “People may intentionally misconstrue you into a violation.”

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 May 2019
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      Should either of these happen you’re at the mercy of how customer service groups are budged for and incentived, which means there exists a material chance that you’ll get shut down and then have your tickets routed into the /dev/null queue.

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 May 2019
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      Note that while one is at substantially more risk of this if operating in a domain where folks have already operationalized pressure campaigns (e.g. partisan politics) the Cardinal Richileu effect means that a sufficiently dedicated adversary can probably find something anywhere.

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 May 2019
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      (Explaining that reference for the benefit of readers in countries where this isn’t on standard curriculum: Cardinal Richileu, a historical figure, is purported to have said “Give me six lines written by any man and I will find something justifying having him hanged.”)

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    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 May 2019
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      I think there was some deep wisdom in classical liberalism saying “You know maybe if we take the government broadly out of the business of regulating speech we won’t incentivize folks to use us as a weapon in petty disputes.” and, unfortunately, this seems out of favor.

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    7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 May 2019
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      People claim that platforms aren’t government, which is true, but at sufficient scale they start to look a lot like one in terms of juicy value for hitting a target, and they’re very obviously being weaponized for this purpose.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 May 2019
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      And I suppose the folks doing that think they are either the only people smart enough to rules lawyer or they are sufficiently insulated by social power at the platform and always will be. These seem like very poor bets to make over long time scales, and negative sum.

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        2. Colin Percival‏ @cperciva 6 May 2019
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          My belief (based on a handful of examples, i.e. no solid evidence) is that there is a very large overlap between the people who rules-lawyer ToSes to silence people they don't like and those who use social media to whip up mobs.

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 May 2019
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          Replying to @cperciva

          Even if we didn’t have Rules for Radicals then I think the Internet would have gradient ascented itself to the same set of practices anyway.

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        2. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle 6 May 2019
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          Observationally it seems the inverse. Platforming Nazis is the stable mode

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        3. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle 6 May 2019
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          The hundred years or so in which genocide has been widely promoted as bad is an eye blink in the 4000 year written history of humanity in which it was understood as pretty much just the done thing

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