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Facebook is worse than Fascism and Communism? Seriously?

• sp332 9y ago
  Neither of those words are mentioned in the article, so... Huh?
• dredmorbius 9y ago
  You might care to look into the history of mass communications and the demagogic, fascist, Communist, and anti-communist political movements of the past century or two. Fascism is very closely aligned with the rise of radio, cinema, and phonographs, as well as public address systems in which many thousands of people could hear a single speaker. Communism much the same, as well as very cheap publishing -- Chairman Mao's Little Red Book (official title, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, is one of the two most widely reproduced books in all history (the other is the Bible, and it's not clear which is the more published). Father Coughlin and Joseph McCarthy were both tremendously boosted by radio. Rush Limbaugh has the largest radio audience in the United States, at about 26 million weekly listeners (NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered come in second and third at about 14.5 million apiece). The history of dramatic changes to social structures and systems due to changes in media and epistemic is older than history itself -- it was one of those changes (writing) which started history. Elisabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, and Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy, particularly address this.