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> We once envisioned the internet as a place of revolutionarily open discourse, where any idea under the sun could get posted somewhere and read, no matter how crazy or bad it seemed, with the worst ridiculed and dismissed, but still able to be read, and the best rising to the top. I'd like to know more about the vision:

* what was the idea for combating Sybil if hundreds of thousands, millions, or billions of people arrived?

* what was the idea for combating disinformation campaigns?

* if you thought it best to maximize for globally readable and reachable ideas, what was the idea for dealing with garden variety abuse and viral content of a defamatory nature?



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