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Didn't say it was the canonical successor, only that it, like blogs and Facebook and the net itself, allows people who were not heard in mass media to speak. That is a step change. How each technology, including printing, is executed and sustained obviously has impact.
It seems likely the internet in general is net good. It's specific social media sites I'm less certain about.
Not to wear out the analogy but it's 1475 in Gutenberg years. It's early. We're figuring out how to use it. The present net is built well for speaking but not yet for listening. That, I hope and believe, will be a next phase.
Just this morning, I read this in an 1874 edition of Harper's Magazine: "Much of this outcry of against the liars of the daily press is unjust, for there is but one liar in the daily press: It is Man."
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