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“You create this breeding ground and when you deplatform it doesn’t go away, they just migrate,” said Hany Farid, a computer science professor and misinformation researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. “This is not one that should have been complicated. We had 18 months to think about these issues, we knew the vaccine was coming, why was this not the policy from the very beginning?”
[From The Washington Post.]
Is "You create this breeding ground and when you deplatform it doesn’t go away, they just migrate" the antecedent of the pronoun "one" in “This is not one that should have been complicated"?
Is "deplatform" an intransitive verb in the cited passage?
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anonymous Is "You create this breeding ground and when you deplatform it doesn’t go away, they just migrate" the antecedent of the pronoun "one" in “This is not one that should have been complicated"? No. Not directly.
- anonymous Is "You create this breeding ground and when you deplatform it doesn’t go away, they just migrate" the antecedent of the pronoun "one" in “This is not one that should have been complicated"?
- No.
- Not directly.
- 'one' means 'a problem', and the 'problem' (or 'situation') is only obliquely mentioned in the previous phrases.
- There is no true antecedent — only an implicit antecedent ( problem; situation ).
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anonymousIs "You create this breeding ground and when you deplatform it doesn’t go away, they just migrate" the antecedent of the pronoun "one" in “This is not one that should have been complicated"?
No. Not directly. 'one' means 'a problem', and the 'problem' (or 'situation') is only obliquely mentioned in the previous phrases. There is no true antecede
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