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We're Getting the Social Media Crisis Wrong

4 points| mcfunley | 1 year ago |programmablemutter.com

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hindsightbias|1 year ago

The founders weren’t pro universal democracy. They were pro mitigating a coming riot and knew they had to unify disparate interests into a rabble that wouldn’t become a mob. The result is as weak a democracy as you could fashion.

Social medias ultimate result will be a mob. When that reaches a majority, they’ll go after any minorities. It’s their nature.