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I am not a big Marshall McLuhan fan but this is what is meant by the medium is the message.

You are not going to have the same discussion in print that you have electronically and on social media. It doesn't matter what the subject is.

"Public discourse" really doesn't even mean the same thing to compare today with a 100 years ago.

A 100 years ago the person batting an eyelash would have simply not bothered to consume the media.

You also can't forget that we were a deeply religious society a 100 years ago and all those subjects listed had the appeal of forbidden fruit. That might even be a bigger change than the medium.