Re:Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his emplo...
by banads on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:20PM
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Thanks for the clarification. You're right, access to the internet at large is more or less egalitarian; having your voice heard (and not hidden), is not though, and therein lies the problem.
If a tree falls on the forest, and no one is there to hear it, did it even make a noise?
Also relevant is this very interesting research experiment conducted ~5 years ago on social media manipulation, in which they dubbed the term "Censorship 2.0"
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock...
Re:Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his emplo...
by closetohome on Thursday June 04, 2020 @03:26PM
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That's true, we used to think of it in terms of access, but I suppose now that anyone can figuratively start their own news network, the issue is who gatekeeps the directories rather than the access.
Now, given that major social network advertise pretty much everywhere, this might not be an entirely fair analogy. Some parking lots have ads for them posted in every other parking lot. But it's a point worth making that access is relatively egalitarian on the internet.