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by energy123 496 days ago
> If you don'y like it, you're going to have to convince people that it's a bad idea.

You can't convince people whose attention bandwidth is entirely consumed by the social media engagement algorithms controlled by the very people doing this.

I'm afraid this might be a fait accompli for democratic institutions. The chance to stop this was 10 years ago, by breaking up concentrated media ownership and regulating social media. We didn't, and it's too late.