[meh99]

That’s a blatant lie, or more generously, harmfully ignorant perspective.

Academics, thinkers, have been warning about private power eroding public for decades.

Oh sure SV specifically is new NOW, but they haven’t done anything Walmart didn’t do to little communities decades before, or ATT hasn’t done; co-opt control of public government for private gain.

I’m done with this community. It’s a bunch of ostriches who are equivocating their failures as political agents; don’t login. They lose their power.

Stop living in the bespoke simulation in your head.

[Covzire]

And newspapers also, long before Walmart was choosing which books or magazines or music to stock. But Walmart has never had direct control over the public square at the incredibly grand scale that Twitter, Facebook and Youtube do, that's the point.