>Thing is, that is standing up at a battle line which has been flanked entirely.
If you think for yourself, this doesn't really matter.
>If you are someone who has a counter theory, you just don’t get platformed.
You keep mentioning this stuff from a liberal perspective but conservatives and free thinkers have been fighting this fight on social media for years as policies they disagreed with were promoted unilaterally and everything else was censored and suppressed. People were at risk of losing their jobs and being sent into exile over not wanting to take a vaccine. "My body, my choice" doesn't count when it comes to that.
The information economy is full of shills and AI bots, but that does not in and of itself prevent you from finding your own reliable sources of information. Censorship would stop you from finding it, however. Mandatory online ID would also hurt the flow of sincerely communicated information.
The Republican Party is essentially merged with a media conglomerate. The media conglomerate is able to avoid dealing with accuracy by simply moving onto the next story constantly.
They found a free market way to pervert the marketplace of ideas.
I highly recommend the book, it’s pretty comprehensive, and at this point I am beyond tired having to argue the same case, its permutations and combinations and having to restart from square one each time.
People better than me have put the effort to explain how you are being circumvented.
I am not telling you not to fight the good fight, I am telling you that you were accounted for and made redundant without tripping your alarms.
It’s easy to fight me, or argue with me, because I am a comment on a screen.
I don’t know if you are someone who leans towards research and analysis first, or action first.
Either way, the best answer and data gathering in one place is in that boring ass book.
>The Republican Party is essentially merged with a media conglomerate.
>They found a free market way to pervert the marketplace of ideas.
I'm not going to argue with you that the Republican Party has no friendly media. But 80% of the media has a Democrat bias, to the point of shamelessly calling Republicans Nazis. Don't get me started on Hollywood, which is also overwhelmingly biased toward Democrats. The fact that you are oblivious to this is depressing.
>Either way, the best answer and data gathering in one place is in that boring ass book.
I appreciate that you think the book is a good one, but I can just turn on the news and see the biases of each individual outlet on display. I don't need to read a boring ass book complaining about biases from a biased perspective, when I can simply look at what each media agency puts out and figure out what their agenda is. I think you aren't pessimistic enough about the state of the media, because you're ascribing a monopoly on bias to a group that decidedly does not own it. Where was all this skepticism over the last, oh, 10 or 20 years?
Read it. For the love of god. I genuinely dont care if you are Red or Blue. I care that you have the technical ability to understand modern media tactics. It is well past things like bias.
Fight team blue for all its worth - just be aware of how modern information suppression is being achieved.
>I care that you have the technical ability to understand modern media tactics. It is well past things like bias.
I understand what they do very well. I'm at the point where if the media says it's raining, I go look outside.
I truly wonder if you know how modern suppression is achieved. I've been witnessing it for many years now. If you didn't already know, social media outlets like Twitter had backdoor access for government employees, where practically anyone who had access could request to infringe on their fellow citizens' First Amendment rights. They would throttle and ban people with as few as dozens of followers/subscribers. Liberals were very much of the "It's not happening but it's a good thing" attitude the whole time, like they do with every concern from the other side. Look at the tyrannical censorship, disarmament, surveillance, and financial oppression taking shape all over the Western world. Our "allies" are doing trial runs, and the "elites" have the same intentions for us stubbornly independent Americans.
If you want to go down another rabbit hole on this topic, look up Operation Mockingbird.
If you think for yourself, this doesn't really matter.
>If you are someone who has a counter theory, you just don’t get platformed.
You keep mentioning this stuff from a liberal perspective but conservatives and free thinkers have been fighting this fight on social media for years as policies they disagreed with were promoted unilaterally and everything else was censored and suppressed. People were at risk of losing their jobs and being sent into exile over not wanting to take a vaccine. "My body, my choice" doesn't count when it comes to that.
The information economy is full of shills and AI bots, but that does not in and of itself prevent you from finding your own reliable sources of information. Censorship would stop you from finding it, however. Mandatory online ID would also hurt the flow of sincerely communicated information.