> Makes me remember an old report that favelas in Brazil had more TV's than refrigerators. When radio and television started to make inroads into public life i

> Makes me remember an old report that favelas in Brazil had more TV's than refrigerators. When radio and television started to make inroads into public life in many developed country they benefited from a lot of reasonably curated, even cultural programs ran as a public services. In many countries national television did a lot to provide bits of education to adults, encourage adoption of the national language, learn about other cultures and so on. What is really bad on the Internet is that many websites and services benefit from misleading content, ignorant comments, conspiracy theories, and so on. Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September But perhaps it's not so bad: when the level of misinformation is high enough (e.g. on platforms like tiktok) most people learn quickly to be skeptical.