Time for third-party data brokers to emerge from the shadows?

Re:Time for third-party data brokers to emerge from the shad... by chiefalchemist on Monday April 09, 2018 @10:52PM (#16798665)

> "Even after the Snowden revelations, not much really happened to the government or the NSA."

True. But that says far more about the Mainstream Media than anything else. Most people dismissed the issue because it was never really made an issue.

We can debate / discuss why that was some other time. But, as we now see, the MSM drives public option.

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Re:Time for third-party data brokers to emerge from the shad... by sgc on Monday April 09, 2018 @11:40PM (#16798841)

I think one of the premises of this thread is that online social media, rather than MSM, appears to hold the best cards at this point.

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Re:Time for third-party data brokers to emerge from the shad... by chiefalchemist on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:30AM (#16800081)

Um. Yes and no.

Are SM the ripples in the societal water? Absolutely.

But who / what is the rock that generates and maintains the narative of those ripples?

The MSM is like Top 40 radio. That is, the public wants what the public gets. No one changes the station. They just keep whistling along to the tunes being played - regardless of how bad and mindless. Most people are simply regurgitating brain-worms. They do that on SM.

p.s. The fact that SM was relatively silent (compared to say Stormy Daniels) is a great example. Which did the MSM "play"? And which was ignored?

There are no ripples without a rock hitting the water.

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