Suppose you make a new social media site, called Hatr.

No censorship. Absolute freeze peach. Nazis and worse welcomed with open arms.

The catch: they have to pay if you get sued for their content.
Jeff Bezos joins on the very first day. You& #39;re giddy with excitement. This is amazing.

He begins immediately posting endless streams of hate speech.
He gets sued, you get sued.

You discover that under the law you& #39;re facing a fine of $100,000 per day his content stays on your sight

Plus $100,000 per word of each of his posts.
If he has $164 billion dollars and makes $1.5 billion a week, how many centuries could he afford to use your site as an outlet for hate speech?
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