It seems to me that people are now trying to hold social media firms to much higher standards than we've ever held for other media, entertainment, and non-necessity products. Used to be that if customers liked your stuff, & you didn't overprice or hurt others, you were okay.
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Replying to @robinhanson
There is currently a strong push to regulate social media because they disrupt the convergence of public opinion, which is potentially destabilizing. Also, each organized political camp attempts to stake claims for their rights to shape the Overton window.
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Replying to @Plinz
Media have been disrupting the convergence of public opinion for centuries.
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There was a time when public opinion was a public, person-to-person event. Media quickly went from extending the public space, to being the church or religion that selectively carried our messages to one another (and often convey a different message).
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This time ended about 6000 years ago, when we switched from the tribal mode to the state building mode, which was facilitated by enforcing shared norms and beliefs through religious indoctrination. Mass media and modernist ideologies were the update that enabled systemic society.
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