[ycombinary]

Social media and tech companies are effectively helping external actors (and malicious internal actors) to break western democracy.

[ndsipa_pomu]

Quite - that's been patently obvious since the Cambridge Analytica scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

Ultimately, there's a war between the haves and the have-nots and one side clearly has more resources.

[ycombinary]

Yeah.

It's demoralising.

[amelius]

Yes, that is the final observation needed in the proof that open societies are more brittle than those led by dictators.

[ndsipa_pomu]

An open society shouldn't have all the mainstream media in the control of just a handful of people - that's a recipe for abuse and cover-ups. It reminds me of hierarchical religions where just certain people (e.g. priests) have access to the "higher powers" and can thus mislead the masses.