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It's hard to imagine anything good coming from the world's richest man owning one of the world's largest information dissemination systems. Do we really need t
by munificent 5y ago
It's hard to imagine anything good coming from the world's richest man owning one of the world's largest information dissemination systems.
Do we really need to concentrate power even more than it already is?
- preordained 5y agolol...like Twitter was some kind of bastion of information dissemination for the people, rather than a massive narrative filter and amplifier. The irony is that a lot of people are hoping he can return Twitter to a place of a less restricted conversation...
- munificent 5y ago"bastion of information dissemination" and "massive filter and amplifier" are synonymous to me. Maybe I should have been clearer, but I didn't mean "information" in the sense of "true facts about the world", I meant in the sense of "data someone wants to get in the heads of others". Truth, lies, stories, anecdotes, misinformation, fiction, data, and nonsense are all "information" in that sense. And Twitter is clearly one of the world's largest services for moving data into human heads.