Platforms Are Not Publishers
<p><pre><code>    &gt; The internet connects more than 3 billion people 
    &gt; and enables a grand diversity among them to speak,
    &gt; if not yet to be heard. “Republics,” said the late
    &gt; Columbia University professor James Carey, “require
    &gt; conversation, often cacophonous conversation, for 
    &gt; they should be noisy places.” That sound you hear,
    &gt; which sometimes grates, is the racket of society
    &gt; negotiating its norms and standards, its future.
    &gt; It is the messy sound of democracy.
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Nope, you have trolls and extremist groups gleefully spraying toxic garbage over everything, until decent, mature people abandon the site. Sane people don&#x27;t post on Youtube. Some sane people post on Twitter, etc... but they eventually give up. If graffiti on a toilet stall is the standard for online &quot;democracy,&quot; we&#x27;ll never solve any problems, and only the worst people among us will actually benefit from freedom of expression.<p>Any site today that doesn&#x27;t have iron-clad moderation (like this one!) devolves into an inhumane freak show.