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No, he’s saying the internet upended the old funnel model by providing democratized global distribution to anyone, but now Facebook has not only largely reverse
by settsu 9y ago
No, he’s saying the internet upended the old funnel model by providing democratized global distribution to anyone, but now Facebook has not only largely reversed progress, they’ve done worse by profiteering on content they’ve assumed effectively zero cost, risk, or effort in distributing.
Furthermore, they’ve destabilized democratic societies and radicalized neighbor against neighbor (speaking locally & globally.) Again, all the while, profiting from their carelessness, suffering few, if any, meaningful consequences.
- notmymain 9y agoSure, but that's fundamentally untrue. Facebook has gone to considerable effort and cost and taken great risk to build their network so that they can then monetize content that gets distributed on their platform. I'm not a fan of Facebook btw, but just that the argument the guy is making fails on basic economics.