Sure. The prior implementations of the hate machines didn't benefit from recommenders and individual behaviour profiling. As silly (quaint) as the efforts now

Sure. The prior implementations of the hate machines didn't benefit from recommenders and individual behaviour profiling. As silly (quaint) as the efforts now seem, FCC licensees had to serve the public interest, popular culture had ratings, we had the Fairness Doctrine, the medias weren't yet dominated by monoplies, yadda, yadda. Now, there are no checks, no counter balances. All I'm saying is that Zuck, Dorsey, Page & Brin, and so many others, are moral cripples, oblivious to the harm they've enabled. They're not even malicious, like Murdock or Sinclair, which somehow makes it more sad.