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Section 230 and a tragedy of the commons

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The dilemma of social media platforms.

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    cover image Communications of the ACM
    Communications of the ACM  Volume 64, Issue 10
    October 2021
    89 pages
    ISSN:0001-0782
    EISSN:1557-7317
    DOI:10.1145/3487943
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