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In reply to the discussion: That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It [View all]ancianita
(36,203 posts)Not in the sense of public owned utilities, obviously, but we have made them beyond their originators'/owners' concepts. Privately owned terms of service platforms. Granted.
But communication is a tool. House rules say we don't just let someone come in our house and rob us of our knife set.
We need those tools to cook and eat with. We take care of them because they take care of us.
We don't need someone to come in (invited guests or not), point those tools at us, then just like that, we throw up our hands and say, "okay you get the run of the house," -- then give our tools to them because they've weaponized them. Then move out to where, the disappeared public commons? Where is that now?
Same goes for the bad actors amplification. Maybe they were always there and we just didn't know about them. Now that the social media footlights have lit a dark stage, we're seeing them better, and shocked at what we see. Doesn't mean they weren't always there, though.
When bad actors are bent on destroying trust, you don't let them have the stage and think there's another theater anyone can go to that's got good actors. Usually, good theaters make sure that the good actors' audience wants them to dispatch the bad actors, for a good story ending. Why let bad actors run the human stage?
Otherwise, what's the democratic theater for?