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Dan Davies's avatar

Sorry everybody. As you can see, genuine comments from me have this little "AUTHOR" tag on them.

The geniuses of Substack have created a block function which means that if someone impersonates me, but has the sense to block me when they create the account, I can't ban them, report them or even see their comment spam. I have submitted a tetchy support request; if the whole newsletter moves to a different platform, this will be why.

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Stuart Langridge's avatar

> “ I think the key worry about back channel conversations is that they might be a vector for bribery or influence, but I’m not sure that the potential harm from that is of the same order as the harm from constantly delayed infrastructure”

Mmm… not sure about that. The problem of bribery and undue influence going on is a bad one in itself, sure, but a bigger one is if everyone thinks that that’s how it works. That’s a big picture problem like “not having infrastructure” is. Some might say that’s naive and everybody already does think that the whole planning process is already nothing but a mess of unfair decisions and backhanders so you can’t make that worse, but I don’t think I’m quite that cynical.

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