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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by logicchains on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:04PM (#42714634)
>This would help build up a more shared “worldview” like mediums such as radio and TV did; you chose the channel, but everybody on the same channel gets the same information.

That would be a nightmare, going back to the bad old days when people's worldviews were entirely decided by whatever flavour of government propaganda their preferred TV station happened to favour.

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by dml2135 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:16PM (#42714821)
Oh yea, thank god we left that world behind completely. It would be terrible like, some major news network was completely in the tank for one of our political parties, and a huge percentage of the population kept it on basically 24/7. That would completely poison our discourse. Good thing the internet fixed that one.
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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by ToValueFunfetti on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @04:06PM (#42716995)
>huge percentage of the population

I happen to have just looked into this, and it turns out this percentage peaks at 1 (for Sean Hannity, apparently?), but typically is around 0.5%. Less huge than you may be imagining

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