Arvind Narayanan on Twitter: "Technologists who think platforms for online speech are neutral and don’t have politics should remember that the left-right political spectrum dates to the French revolution, wherein the geometry of the meeting hall helped fragment the debate and polarize the members' positions. https://t.co/LhYEF27NSv" / Twitter
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Summary:
In building spaces for speech, seemingly innocuous design decisions can have major impacts on the nature of the resulting speech. The design of platforms for political speech is inherently political. Platform developers cannot rid themselves of this power and responsibility.