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Paper media does not produce the advertisements, the customers or ad agencies do that. For decades the classifieds section, entirely 'user generated' was of mas
by stonogo 4y ago
Paper media does not produce the advertisements, the customers or ad agencies do that. For decades the classifieds section, entirely 'user generated' was of massive import to society, to the degree that sunshine laws still frequently require governments to publish important announcements in the classified section of the local "paper of record."
In other words, traditional media produce and own content, but there has always been a tremendous amount of user-generated media mixed in.
- kelnos 4y agoSure, but my impression is that readers submit classified ads, someone at the paper says it's ok, and it gets published in the classifieds. A social media platform would not be viable if someone had to approve every post before it went live. (Maybe that means that social media platforms should just not exist, but that's not really the specific point we're arguing here.)
- stonogo 4y agoWhat is the specific point? That ownership of content implies slow production? What if a social media network established a contractor relationship with each user, and paid them for their content at a rate of, say, one cent per million posts, with a maximum of one hundred billable posts per day? The content would be coming thick and fast, the company would have more standing to enforce its terms of service, and you've dodged whatever moderation rules might apply to user-generated content, since it's all work-for-hire by our vast cadre of contractors. I'm just not convinced that "traditional media own and produce their content" is indicative of anything particularly important, and just muddies the waters surrounding the actual problems at play.