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Re:Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC by Gravityloss on Thursday November 20, 2025 @09:17AM (#45992789)
The invention of radio brought us in short order the Volksempfänger or the German people's receiver, and its consequences...
Re:Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC by barbazoo on Thursday November 20, 2025 @09:30AM (#45992933)
Radio is a technology. Facebook is an application of technology. The internet would be a better comparison which arguably has overwhelming positive impact.
Re:Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC by Gravityloss on Thursday November 20, 2025 @09:49AM (#45993115)
Radio and internet have both had positive and negative effects. One can also say they are only neutral platforms, and people have then created positive and negative things with them. Same can be said about Facebook or Reddit too IMO. At what point does the morality start, complex question.
Re:Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC by tshaddox on Thursday November 20, 2025 @09:38AM (#45992996)
Then surely the same complaint could be made about some particular radio stations.