Nathan Baschez is the cofounder and CEO of AI word processor Lex. He cofounded Every, was the first employee at Substack, and co-created Product Hunt.
Twitter as a City-State
The Argument for Democracy in Cyberspace
Apr 30, 2022 · 7 min readUpdated May 21, 2026
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Is Twitter a regular company? Or is it, as Jack Dorsey and many others believe, more like a public utility?
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