Yes, social media is undermining democracy

Re:Yes, social media is undermining democracy by thomassmith65 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @03:41PM (#32269222)

I see some truth to that, but I tend to focus on all the possible versions of the internet we could have designed, probably some would be dystopic, and others utopic.

I also can see the irony in democracy falling to democracy, but, at the risk of sounding preachy, we should remember that the most infamous dictatorships of the 20th Century sprang from democratic elections.

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Re:Yes, social media is undermining democracy by ifyoubuildit on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:03PM (#32269447)

Democracy leading to non-democracy isn't the irony i was talking about.

The irony is in an institution that has enormous power in our system complaining that giving the little people a chance to speak up is somehow undermining the ability of those little people to self-govern.

Edit: In other words, social media may not be perfectly representative of the people's will, but it's almost certainly more so than what comes out of something like the atlantic. On top of that, you could argue that social media diminishes the power of an institution like the atlantic. That is the irony.

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