| > Why would the elites try to reign in social media? To better control it? > I'd want them revealing all the intimate details of their life, so I can better manipulate them with targted advertising. Yes. As long as they control the targeting and advertising. > You don't need a conspiracy theory to explain the recent uptick in articles about social media's negative effects. It's not a conspiracy. It's reality. It's what happened with every communication medium. Print, Radio, Film, TV and now the internet. To believe otherwise is the real conspiracy. > It's called a news cycle. It doesn't span years. > Remember when lead was discovered in Flint, MI's water supply? And then there was an uptick in stories about lead poisoning? Crazy how quickly that downed down huh? That the elites want to control the means of communication is standard policy for thousands of years. And it spans all nations. The chinese elite, russian elite, saudi elite, the european elites, etc all want to control communication. Our elites aren't different. Societies, like humans, have similar organs. |