> Globally, we've been speedrunning fucking up society in critical areas for decades now.
Social media has also been enormously beneficial in terms of crippling the propaganda power of centralized, commercial media. It would be very bad to simply return to the authority of editorial boards. What we actually need is to grapple with the social responsibility that comes with this power, which could take decades or even centuries of living with the internet to wrangle.
Especially now that we know how little of the world traditional newsrooms are even willing to cover, let alone fund coverage of.
Social media has also been enormously beneficial in terms of crippling the propaganda power of centralized, commercial media. It would be very bad to simply return to the authority of editorial boards. What we actually need is to grapple with the social responsibility that comes with this power, which could take decades or even centuries of living with the internet to wrangle.
Especially now that we know how little of the world traditional newsrooms are even willing to cover, let alone fund coverage of.
Besides, the cat is out of the bag.