I don't understand the argument that privately owned companies are supposed to be unfiltered outlets for free speech on their own platform. While that would be great, you can't get mad when privately owned platforms choose not to provide channels for certain content.
So much for mass media being champions of free speech. They only champion freedom for their own monstrous megaphones. Everybody else keep quiet and let self-appointed "journalists" dominate our discourse.https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1027669651264888832 …
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While I appreciate your point on private companies, these corporations (FaceBook, YouTube) have become so big & powerful they are in themselves like governments. Think about it. Twitter & Facebook seems to have been intertwined w/ politics a lot lately (Cambridge Analytica, etc).
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Exactly. The people repeating the oblivious cliche "they are private companies they have a right, period", as if there is no big problem or that principle somehow solves the problem, have become quite tedious.
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What do you believe the solution is? I agree it is a huge issue. But these companies need to make money, not piss off advertisers, and keep shareholders happy.
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When you kick off somebody who draws in a huge number of eyeballs for advertising, there is far more than mere rational market forces at work.
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P.S. Alas I don't know of a good solutions, only a couple bad solutions that may or may not be good enough: (1) decentralized social ntworks, which being open source tend to be user hostile (2) laws protecting property rights in the investments of social ntwrk users
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Mass media is only a propaganda tool and everyone after age of 5 should be aware of it.
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It's not only propaganda, but yes it's crucial that people learn from an early age, from their close relatives about technological megaphones and propaganda. (If it's not from a parent or similar they are just learning about megaphones from a megaphone, a very biased source).
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It's just groups of interests trying to enforce their narrative on the masses. Centralized nature of mass media penalizes anyone who does not fit the narrative. The only cure to that is the internet, where anyone can report news/grow a following, thus decentralizing the network.
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These private companies are involved in our every day lives. They can change the path of a country. So this is dangerous. I wonder why
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He is, as are some of his supporters in Congress, who have also fallen victim.
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It's time to break down this companies like they did with Microsoft.
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CNN is highlighting Jones’ most offensive content and pushing it to their viewers? Not a great example of censorship.
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