> I've changed my mind on deplatforming multiple times, but I think this is where I've settled as I've watched everything play out. Democracy, if we let it func

> I've changed my mind on deplatforming multiple times, but I think this is where I've settled as I've watched everything play out. Democracy, if we let it function, is antifragile. The catch, I think, is that it has to be both broad and deep democracy. In electoral politics, this means things that narrow the franchise and reduce participation are the danger -- gerrymandering, deliberate stoking of cynicism and apathy, overly bureaucratized processes with too many veto points that break the connection between who wins elections and what effect that actually has on people's lives, etc. All of this means fewer people participating and government being less and less representative of the governed. In tech, I think the biggest danger is platform concentration. Arguments over, say, kicking someone off of Facebook only really become free speech arguments because of FB's massive market share. To switch out the immunity metaphor for a different one, we've got a problem where the internet's become mainly a bunch of multi-lane freeways, and the solution isn't to try and build competing freeways, it's to rethink the economic models that have led us to decide everyone needs to go in the same direction with as much speed with the most volume as possible. I suppose the analog to my first paragraph on electoral politic is that, just as the nationalization of all politics has eroded deep democracy, the concentration of platform power has eroded some important and essential quality for healthy online community.