Back to the war on the platforms
Welcome to Unmade, written on a frosty Monday morning at Sisters Beach, Tasmania.
Happy National Sausage Pizza Day. And more to the point, happy end-of-lockdown, if you happen to be in Sydney. Enjoy that haircut.
This morning’s writing soundtrack: Trans-Europe Express, from Kraftwerk. Initially, Alexa played the single rather than the album. It must have played on repeat for half an hour before I noticed.
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“At present, the platforms get to argue that, just like Australia Post wouldn’t be sued if a letter it delivers was defamatory, they’re not legally a publisher”. Except Australia Post does not generate most of its revenue from selling advertising on letters. That is where the analogy breaksdown.