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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 558 days ago
"The point's already been made, but plenty of monsters are husbands and fathers."

For example, the ones establishing and profiting from so-called "social media" at the expense of organisations that employ journalists.

Advertisers choose between supporting organizations that employ journalists versus supporting ones that do not, the ones profiting instead from the "torrent of hate". NYT has plenty of paying subscribers; it is not 100% dependant on ads, unlike "social media", generally.

Indeed "the people running social media have active and unceasing contempt for us". They prefer computers over people. Surveillance over sympathy.