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>A society in which the village idiot gets a megaphone and can cheat his/her way into amplifying that megaphone with no recourse? That is not accurate. The rea
by passivate 5y ago
>A society in which the village idiot gets a megaphone and can cheat his/her way into amplifying that megaphone with no recourse?
That is not accurate. The reality is the opposite of what you said. The megaphone is actually due to people voluntarily gathering around the person to listen to what they say. People only interact with content/people they agree with and this is causing social media bubbles.
- mbesto 5y ago> The megaphone is actually due to people voluntarily gathering around the person to listen to what they say. It's based on inflated numbers derived from false information. Tell me this - if you saw two adjacent town square forums and one person had 10 people listening and another one had 100 people listening to them, what are the odds the 111th person goes to listen to one over the other? The 100 people of course. This is effectively how twitter works, but can be gamed by fake "crowds" of bots. So, yes people are voluntarily listening to those with influence, but the gatherers are given inaccurate information to make that decision. The distinction is important.