> I don't have a solution, but we can't pretend that speech isn't much more powerful in today's society I am not actually convinced of this: speech is a lot mo

> I don't have a solution, but we can't pretend that speech isn't much more powerful in today's society I am not actually convinced of this: speech is a lot more spreadable today, but there is also a lot more of it from a lot more angles. Just as a greater supply of currency drives price inflation, a greater supply of opinions drives speech inflation: your opinion can spread across the world in seconds, but people give far less of a damn than they used to. > Furthermore the environment favors evolution towards short, poorly thought out, poorly reviewed, "engaging" (and enraging) yellow-press like content. I can think of no period in history where this wasn't the case. Bread and circuses have been the go-to of those in power since the dawn of history.