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Yufan Lou • Edited

NYT is held liable for the content of its pages

The usual liabilities which apply to newspapers are defamation, libel, slander, and reckless false advertisement. All of which apply to Facebook.

Moreover, the Op-Ed, invented by NYT, is for publication from authors with "no institutional connection with The Times," expressing views "[very frequently completely divergent] from our own." What's more, you can send your own articles to be published as "letters to the editor".

NYT is surprisingly similar to Facebook.

Your mobile phone platform does not assume responsibility for a private conversation between contract holders [emphasis editor's]

You cannot broadcast to hundreds or thousands of your friends and followers with your SMS either. If you set a Facebook post to be public, then its public. Even if you set a post to be readable only by friends, it still is not private.

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Please inform yourself of the moderation policy of arXiv.

The part about not tolerating the intolerant comes in when they start suppressing speech, or "are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument". That is when the intolerant start censoring [emphasis editor's]

Popper warns about "censoring" as well as "[irrational] argument". "[Rational] argument" is not a high standard, but it is not as low as "any argument" either.