> It's a democratic problem that 99% of all public discourse is subject to veto and policy from advertisers and payment processers, and the drive to maximize in

> It's a democratic problem that 99% of all public discourse is subject to veto and policy from advertisers and payment processers, and the drive to maximize income from these. The problem is in reverse. Cable news and then Twitter artificially created this idea that a public international town square was a good idea and then decided the need to fund it. Really the Democratic problem is that over the past 30 or so years we’ve flipped the pyramid from focusing on local news and communication to focusing on national and international news and communication. And that is much more expensive to operate.