Re:Canadians will no longer have access to news content on F...
by glonq on Thursday June 22, 2023 @07:15PM
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Not "nowadays" in the sense that things were only rosy and great "in the old days".
Rather, this kind of thing seems to ebb and flow a bit. And right now it smells like low tide.
Re:Canadians will no longer have access to news content on F...
by lucb1e on Thursday June 22, 2023 @07:20PM
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Could be. I wonder if we could (or if anyone has) poll(ed) people on opinions and, with hindsight, establish an actual truth, or at least the best possible guess at it, and see how different things affect that
I feel like my generation (90s) is a lot better informed than almost any parent, let alone grandparent. But maybe that's too long a scale and you rather mean low tide on the span of the past handful of years, on which I don't really have an opinion / can't really say
I guess you mean the period in human civilization where there was widespread literacy but also a high cost of mass producing and distributing texts, assuming people with money to invest in reporters can't be stupid or misinformed.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/literate-and-illiterate-w... Depending on where you draw that line, that never really happened (I would call 'widespread' around 80%, which happened in 2000 but then there was already an internet, although it was a niche and playful version of what it is today).