Re:When radio was king, many outlets chose to stop broadcast...
by marcosdumay on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:30PM
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> What's the vetting process?
You either don't care and make damn sure that the communication channel has a lot of competition over the public mindshare, or you make it completely formal with democratically created rules with last appeals in the government judiciary.
Both of those are fine. Not perfect, but fine. None is dangerous. The first option is the default, for obvious reasons.
I don't know how it was at the time, but our current situation with social media is neither of those options, and not fine at all. Anyway, any comparison or decision based only on the ruleset is misleading.
You either don't care and make damn sure that the communication channel has a lot of competition over the public mindshare, or you make it completely formal with democratically created rules with last appeals in the government judiciary.
Both of those are fine. Not perfect, but fine. None is dangerous. The first option is the default, for obvious reasons.
I don't know how it was at the time, but our current situation with social media is neither of those options, and not fine at all. Anyway, any comparison or decision based only on the ruleset is misleading.