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The information age seems to want for clarification of the 'old rules' of society immemorial. Addiction, theft, privacy, economic theory, etc. We don't seem to
by toufka 10y ago
The information age seems to want for clarification of the 'old rules' of society immemorial. Addiction, theft, privacy, economic theory, etc. We don't seem to yet have clear articulation about how those rules should be newly applied.
A curious thought is that as facebook controls more and more information content it could become a kind of monopoly on the 'marketplace of ideas'. If the dreams of this manifesto were to come to pass, the marketplace of ideas would lack its own market forces and instead facts and ideas would be doled out by a single (corporate) directive force. Many of the principles of our democracy rely on that open marketplace of ideas, and would no longer function as we intend if that marketplace is not open. Can an object/company be too large/controlling within the marketplace of ideas that it becomes a governmental/societal obligation to break it up, as it does when a single player becomes a monopoly in an economic market?