> broadcast your nonsense to millions of people, if you have the resources
Spot on, today you can do that as close to free as possible. In the eras past that was not possible it was expensive so only few could do it and that served as a moderating influence, it was not easy for fringe beliefs to become mainstream. The gatekeeping had the downside of suppressing voices particularly minority and oppressed voices so it was not all rosy.
The only thing we know is we can no longer use the past as reference to model how the future of politics , governance or media will be, which institutions will survive and in what distorted versions in say even 10-30 years.
>> broadcast your nonsense to millions of people, if you have the resources
> Spot on, today you can do that as close to free as possible.
Are you sure?
You can author a tweet for free, yeah. Then you let Musk do the broadcasting if he so pleases. Users have no control over the broadcasting, platform do.
Spot on, today you can do that as close to free as possible. In the eras past that was not possible it was expensive so only few could do it and that served as a moderating influence, it was not easy for fringe beliefs to become mainstream. The gatekeeping had the downside of suppressing voices particularly minority and oppressed voices so it was not all rosy.
The only thing we know is we can no longer use the past as reference to model how the future of politics , governance or media will be, which institutions will survive and in what distorted versions in say even 10-30 years.