China shows us how social-media is outright controlled and used for state-run propaganda, narrative-building, suppressing anti-state opposition, and social-engineering
We have a somewhat different model, but the tool of social-media serves our deep-state in a generally similar way.
We have a somewhat different model, but the tool of social-media serves our deep-state in a generally similar way.
Our problem is that only a handful of people own most of American media & tech. We need Teddy Roosevelt style trust-busting.
Whether trust-busting is "conservative" or "socialist" or "free market correction" or "anti-free market" -- I don't give a damn. I don't care about political labels. In a free society all voices are heard.
In the old days, pre-Reagan, the FCC had a rule called 7-7-7. This meant that no one company would own more than 7 TV stations, 7 AM stations, and 7 FM stations. Reagan changed it to 12-12-12 (one of his bad ideas), and the trend toward media consolidation continued.
Pre-Reagan, TV networks were not allowed to produce and own entertainment shows. That's why the TV networks didn't own any movie studios, and visa versa. That has changed too.
I don't know how to apply it to today's media and tech. But these all Big Media and Big Tech firms need to be shattered into little companies. Bring in a real diversity of owners. Then it'd be hard for any one ideology to deplatform competing voices.