4 ms·
That bakery likely has a staff of two people and a dozen competitors offering equivalent services within a few miles. On the other hand, the public square, its
by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
That bakery likely has a staff of two people and a dozen competitors offering equivalent services within a few miles.
On the other hand, the public square, itself, has been privatized into the hands of multi-billion-dollar corporations from whom there is no appeal.
Nobody actually needs a cake. But a head of state needs to talk to his citizens and his citizens need to hear him, even if we think he is a [insert epithet, here].
- pmiller2 6y ago> Nobody actually needs a cake. But a head of state needs to talk to his citizens and his citizens need to hear him, even if we think he is a [insert epithet, here]. And all that head of state needs to do is hold a press conference to be heard. He or she does not need Twitter, or Facebook, or Parler, or any other social media platform.
- rudolfwinestock 6y agoHolding a press conference means that the message gets filtered through media companies with their own agendas (OAN or CNN; pick your poison). The Internet is meant to dis-intermediate communication. That is its purpose. It's one of the things that makes it such a disruptive change over legacy media platforms. The current de-platforming trend is an attempt to put that genie back in the bottle.
- pmiller2 6y agoSo? We could start a "government information bureau" to fix that, if we wanted.
- shard972 6y agoSo the US gov is now going to start competing with news outlets? Are you high or just full of it?
- rudolfwinestock 6y agoA “government information bureau?” Wow! Another bureaucracy that'll have its own factions with their own agendas that will never work against either their superiors or the electorate.
- pmiller2 6y agoI love how you ignore the last 3 words of the comment.
- huffmsa 6y agoHolding a press conference that will be broadcast how? Over the air? But the youth don't have TVs. They use Twitter and YouTube. But those platforms have banned you. See the problem?
- pmiller2 6y agoNope, sure don't.
- snowwrestler 6y agoDonald Trump is only the 3rd U.S. president to have access to social media. He does not need Twitter or Facebook to reach his constituents; he has a press briefing room in the White House and 24/7 access to reporters. And guess what, whatever he says will get covered by everyone, posted and discussed immediately. When people argue that social media is too powerful because the President needs it, they are according these companies with way more power then they actually have.
- triceratops 6y ago> But a head of state needs to talk to his citizens and his citizens need to hear him He could send a letter. I think the USPS is obligated to carry it.