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Dear Medium PoliceGods, My Friend is Innocent. . .
Please let him out of Medium Jail!
Dear Medium PoliceGods,
My friend, Chris Meyers, is a great writer, with real books at real presses, and I finally convinced him to join Medium on October first. He’s a professional philosopher who will contribute to Medium with well-researched and carefully written stories. Once we bust him out of jail. Please help.
Convincing him to join Medium was not easy to do. He doesn’t like social media. He doesn’t like people. (Well , who does? But, still.)
Worse, I convinced another philosopher that Medium was the closest thing to John Stuart Mill’s marketplace of ideas that contemporary society has. That’s a compliment.
On October first, he shelled out his five bucks, moved some of his blog over to Medium, and complained to me for some time about setting up his pages. (I invest time in you, Medium. I do.) I was excited. I was pretty sure he had enough time to get to 100 followers by the end of the year.
Wham. Not two hours later, he’s in jail.
So, I’m guessing that he broke a rule.
I asked him what the hell was wrong with him. He knows how to read, and he’s usually much better at following instructions than I am. Like, much better.
