i think this time is different than before because in the 20C it seems like there wasnt common knowledge about what was being blocked out of the public space, but now everyone knowshttps://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1446198749051637764 …
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i wonder how this evolves. ok they block all the big ones. do they move to small ones that aren't officially condemned yet, to be proactive? is a committee formed to ban anything that disagrees with a published paper, somewhere? overproduced elites would make great censors
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looking forward to the day when cosmo is prohibited from publishing any dietary information other than the current version of the food pyramid and neil degrasse tyson gets to nix astrology columns
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this is a fun argumento ad absurdum but i think the actual outcome is that anything that just seems off about Important Creedal Issues gets nixed and people continue to ignore dowsing rod professionals because thats not really the issue here
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anyway come at mehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/906268002219302912?t=QL-jS_AaZZ0byrB8E8NBUg&s=19 …
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Long suspected that part of why we like each other less now is just because we know more about each other. We underestimated how different we were from each other
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for a brief while i think we were quite similar on certain scales
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It was quite common in Europe until relatively recently that the state had a monopoly on radio or TV: in my country the first private TV channel was granted a broadcasting license in 1988, and the first (local only) private radio stations appeared earlier that decade.
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Newspapers were quite conformist too -- not quite in the sense that their PoV was dictated by the state, but most papers followed the line of a particular political party in a country with a high degree of political consent. Journalistic codes of conduct were/are strict, too.
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Control isn't quite the right word, because it was more and less than control of information. Information was narrativized by the press and that was the only way to receive it, as a coherent, crafted narrative of whatever that outlet wanted.
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That kind of thing, the ability to take the chaos of fact and opinion and turn it into a "national conversation" or whatever is just totally gone, and things like this are a weak substitute.
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