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		lmm on June 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Those who exercise free speech should also defend ... It's not "social media". It's Twitter, specifically, because of the design decisions of that platform (obvious things like the message length limit, and slightly more subtle things like the way that replies from other people are hidden, encouraging you to pile in).

dependenttypes on June 25, 2020 [–]

While it is certainly worse on Twitter I would argue that the other social media sites are not that much better. See reddit or facebook for example.

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