Don Romano (alt)
When the Gutenberg press was introduced, the establishment were up in arms about it, because they could no longer control the flow of information.
When social media was introduced, the establishment were up in arms about it, because they could no longer control the flow of information.
When the establishment says that these new political movements are dangerous and blame the Internet for their rise, aren't they a bit like the Medieval establishment complaining about the printing press?
Don Romano (alt)
If democracy relies on disseminating a particular narrative to the population through mass media, and this narrative is easily subverted by social media propaganda, doesn't that just mean that democracy has a vulnerability?
When the MD5 hashing algorithm was discovered to be flawed, we didn't sweep it under the carpet while playing whack-a-mole with the hackers. We replaced it with something that (to our best knowledge) wasn't flawed.
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