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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by thebean11 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:47PM (#23064368)
No, that's simply not true. The forums of pubic discourse from before do not exist anymore, the collective's attention has moved. If you lose the megaplatforms, you are much worse off than someone in 2000.
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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by knzhou on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:50PM (#23064380)
What forums are you talking about? Radio, mail, TV, and newspapers still have audiences of hundreds of millions. Internet forums are in decline, but those have always had completely negligible public reach (as in, down by more than 2 orders of magnitude) compared to the others.
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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by thebean11 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:53PM (#23064394)
The audience of the things you've listed has shrunk dramatically, in terms of percentage at the very least. Just look at where ad dollars have been moving for the past 15 years.
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