We've seen this before. Usenet was killed from spam as it didn't have a defence against those seeking to profit from the audience. This is today's equivalent o

We've seen this before. Usenet was killed from spam as it didn't have a defence against those seeking to profit from the audience. This is today's equivalent of the same problem. The difference is it is now two monied interests battling for the audience. I long for a modern usenet newsgroup equivalent that has some kind of protection from monied interests, I suppose a small audience is a guard.