Re:BitPatron – A Bitcoin Censorship-Free Patreon Alternative
by XorNot on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:09AM
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National media already decides what it'll show or not show. They are never under any obligation to give a story coverage - they follow what they think the people want these days (and in days past maybe had some notion of journalistic integrity).
Like just recently, the whole point was that the White House had to ask the national media to give the President airtime - they are, in fact, completely able to refuse to.
But the but-for world here -- analogous to Twitter, Patreon, etc censoring stuff -- is that national mass media would not have covered that stuff.
And how does what you say about Patreon not apply to traditional media that's privately owned?
Also, I'm not necessarily arguing that Patreon etc should be prevented from censoring. Mainly I'm pointing to consequences of traditional media being rep0laced by social media, Patreon, etc.
Some decades ago, there were similar concerns about public streets and squares being replaced by shopping malls. And this is a far more extreme version.