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>or we empower some individuals and companies to control and govern communications etc We've been down this route in several countries during the 20th century
by samdoidge 8y ago
>or we empower some individuals and companies to control and govern communications etc
We've been down this route in several countries during the 20th century and it doesn't pan out well.
- ben_w 8y agoEvery nation did this until the internet. Those companies were collectively called “the press” in the western world.
- prawn 8y agoWhich kinda worked until the press worked out that favouring contentious topics and maintaining two viewpoints was more profitable.
- simonh 8y agoYou’re really going to throw the press in Britain, along with independent anti-establishment papers like Socialist Worker and Marxism Today alongside the Times and the Guardian, into the same bucket as that of Soviet Russia, Maoist China and North Korea?
- ben_w 8y agoGiven my point is that you don’t need to be a dictatorship to do it, yes. Not that being free from government influence frees you from the political preferences of your owner, as this recent non-sequitur headline from the Express should demonstrate: “EU BLACKMAIL: Brussels threatens FOOD AID to UK in 'last throw of dice of Project Fear'”.
- dpq 8y agoLike I said, we're probably screwed anyway.