Tim Colby
1 min readMar 16, 2021

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Yes, I’ve seen other links and workarounds for strikethrough, and yeah it’s usually a time tax or something associated with that. Still, I think sites like Medium that allow feedback on the posted product don’t want to dive into potential complexities that might surface by employing a feature like a strikethrough. Liabilities can surface, especially later this year if the simple intent of section 230 of the Communications Decency act becomes drastically altered, then this opens up yet another litigious can of worms. This could literally erase comment and response functionality across the web, and we become more like the Euro-zone, right to be forgotten, among other liabilous postings, etc. For example, ‘then I saw Mr. so&so do this to Miss so&so’. Then simply stike it through, done, but everyone sees the strikethrough, so it’s like a tool, that could be humorous or possibly get people sued that posted that. Sites like Medium figure they already have enough to deal with.

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Tim Colby
Tim Colby

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Grad: Whats-a-mata-U, Mayor: Foggybog, Wi., Awards: Medium response run-on-sentence-king, Medium response all-over-the-place trophy

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