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Imagine you are an artist and you have your own space, maybe a small table at the fairgrounds where you are selling your pictures from. Would you allow random
by theamk 6y ago
Imagine you are an artist and you have your own space, maybe a small table at the fairgrounds where you are selling your pictures from.
Would you allow random people to attach notes to your pictures -- the notes that everyone who wants to look your pictures would see? Or will you say, "this is my table and I decide what goes here"? If the later, does this make you undemocratic authoritarian?
It is not just "the powerful" who "get a microphone". Anyone can speak out. There are tons of places where we one comment on articles -- we are on one of those. And getting your own site is pretty easy, too.
- jiofih 6y agoNews is not art. It is part of public discourse and has entirely different dynamics.