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> replaced by something worse Not if it is regulated. Maybe there would be less online platforms but there would be some community driven as they were before.

• olalonde 3y ago
  It has more to do about humility than "Stockholhm syndrome" or "gas lighting". Who are we to take away the ad-supported platforms from the people who want them or need them, because they can't afford to pay? Community driven platforms exist today. We don't even need to ban the ad-supported platforms to have them. By the way, I think you may be looking at the past with rosy glass or perhaps didn't live through it. Because advertising on the web used to be a lot more distracting and distasteful. There were popups all over the place, full page animated banner ads, etc.
• whimsicalism 3y ago
  Maybe use terms you actually feel confident you know? Because as it stands “stockholm” and “gaslighting” makes it sound like you were just going for a grab bag and seeing what would stick. The mechanism for why the less affluent would be gated off the platform makes sense to me. Your rejoinder that actually there would be “community driven” platforms seems lacking in a mechanism.