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IF we proceed from the hypothesis that X is "a hate site, filled with conspiracy theories, radicalization and racism"

AND we want to ban the whole platform X,

THEN it would be logical to ban also all the layers down the technological stack: AWS, Google Play Store, Telecoms that transported the traffic etc.

Indeed, X platform has approximately the same responsibility as other platform layers and hence they all should be punished.

Another idea is to punish them proportionally to their ability to check the content published on the platform so that telecoms probably will not be punished at all because they are not able to read encrypted traffic.



Ban the least layers needed to achieve the goal. The layers closer to the violent speech get the most responsibility.

If the next layer refuses to ban the previous layer, then yes: keep going after the next layer in the stack.




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