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Re:Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban by Karunamon on Friday December 18, 2015 @11:47AM (#10759361)
Roughly 3/4 of Americans have access to the internet[1] (and more than half of them are over 65) as of two years ago, which blows the "limited number of platforms" argument away quite handily. The number of individual outlets you can get your news from is functionally unlimited.

The mass media has a responsibility all right, but not the one you think they do.

[1]: https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/2013computeruse.pdf

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Re:Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban by EGreg on Friday December 18, 2015 @12:51PM (#10759740)
What makes you think that there is an unlimited number of mass media platforms?

And what do you think their responsibility actually is? I thought they had rights to say whatever they want and responsibility is optional...

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Re:Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban by Karunamon on Friday December 18, 2015 @01:00PM (#10759797)
Functionally unlimited, not mathematically infinite. No human has the time to meaningfully evaluate all of them.

And I think their responsibility is the conditions under which they were given broadcast licenses in the first place. Something about serving the public good.

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Re:Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban by EGreg on Friday December 18, 2015 @04:58PM (#10761276)
So there you go. That's regulation.
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