for it to be a proper analogy to markets, wouldn't it have to be a matter of state intervention, not platform-level?
baseline competence of platforms (or any entity for that matter) to fiddle with the levers, and measurement.
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it's "easy" to measure how the economy is doing, or at least it is when compared to trying to measure the health of democracy
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I've long thought of platforms as exerting State-like influence on speech but having observed their attempts to regulate anything,
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I am fairly depressed about the outlook of platforms actually successfully intervening.
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I don't know what it is-- I suspect it is pervasive startup-brokenness that persists within major platforms long after achieving
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such mainstream success as to have developed a monopolistic grip on a particular niche in the social media ecosystem.
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if that jankiness and inability to consciously produce and implement sensible policy is inherent to private tech platforms,
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then our current marketplace of ideas crisis comes from another free market gone wrong.
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sorry to spout off, just glad to see you are thinking about this too. It has had me depressed for a long time.
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New piece by
@OrlyLobel on point: The Law of the Platform. I don't agree w consumer protection angle but v insightful. -
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2742380 … here it is happy to discuss
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