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It's not social media, it's the paradox of open media. Free expression requires giving a platform to those who would ultimately seek to control expression, and every new medium sidesteps existing, hard-fought guardrails. Swap "social media" for "newspaper" and date it 1895 and the headline tracks.

Which is not to say we "shouldn't worry" but rather to emphasize that those guardrails that have been sidestepped were *hard-fought*, often literally, and we need to do the same hard work for others that was done for us.

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