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Originally Posted by opendoor
How is an essential oligopoly in this area by a few companies with virtually no government regulation not a problem? Mass media has been replaced by social media, yet none of the regulation that held media to a modicum of standards exists for these companies.
24 hours? Who the hell knows? But did you not just watch the last election where advertisers could spread lies to wide reaching audiences with no repercussions? And these companies were happy to take the money of whomever would pay them to provide viewers for these lies.
These companies want to provide and curate content to sell ad space without the responsibility that every other publisher has to live up to with regards to accuracy or libellous content. If you don't see why that's a problem then I don't know what to say.
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Well, if you’re going to use this thread as an excuse to talk about how social media is dictating public discourse, I’d assume you’d have an example related to it on why that is. Something that happened within 24 hours. You know... that’s why you’d be in the thread... I’d think.
Aside from that, mass media hasn’t been replaced by social media, but it’s certainly changed it.
The biggest disconnect I think that exists, though, is your desire for social platforms to be held to the standard of publishers. They’re not that, nor are they curators in the sense that actual news media is. How you interact with the platform and the information you give it dictates how it interacts with and provides information to you. The traditional media, and people from across the globe, are the publishers, YOU are the curator. Sure, there’s ad space to be had, like literally every other place in the internet. And yes, if you pay a lot, you can push your ads to whoever you want. But like everything else in these platforms, there are rules that are required to be followed, and no, you cannot break the law in Facebook advertisements.
So I just fail to see your issue. You get what you pay for. Know how you’re paying for it, get what you want from it, and it’ll be everything you expect it to be.
Maybe it’s a difference of growing up in a world where it pretty much always existed, but sorry, Spotify pulling a podcast doesn’t scare me as a warning against free speech and the absence of proper regulations.