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> 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, h
by 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.