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Social media is of immense value to humanity because it allows rapid decentralised transmission of information. It's why for instance young Americans have been
by logicchains 2y ago
Social media is of immense value to humanity because it allows rapid decentralised transmission of information. It's why for instance young Americans have been making much more of a fuss about the current genocide in Gaza than any previous one, because the flow of information is no longer filtered through a small number of self-interested media corporations. The fact it pushes some psychologically unstable individuals over the edge is no justification for trying to destroy the whole system; the priority should be on getting those people the treatment they need.
- atmavatar 2y ago> because the flow of information is no longer filtered through a small number of self-interested media corporations Isn't it, though? It seems to me, particularly due to the fact that people now overwhelmingly get their news from social media, that we've merely shifted which self-interested media corporations do the filtering.