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Tony Lyons: “If a big tech platform decided that something they were…”

Featuring: Tony Lyons, President and Publisher of Skyhorse Publishing | New York

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Tony Lyons of Skyhorse Publishing

Published | Video Starts at 12:32

So there were people who, who had, you know, decades of building up their online presence, maybe not decades, maybe 10, 15 years. Who, if the government or If a big tech platform decided that something they were saying constituted misinformation, they could have their whole life's work just disappear. just taken down with no real recourse, no real way to kind of sue the government or sue YouTube or sue Google. (12:32–12:42)

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Asserts that big tech platforms could erase individuals' online presence by labeling content as misinformation.

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