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by ColdStream 14 days ago
While that is true, the friction to access has been made far too easy. Adding in some inconvenience may actually be a good thing. It also helped that in the print/radio/television period, you couldn't hyper focus content at a specific individual. What was broadcast was free for all to see and critique.

I'm not advocating for a return to that, but that was one of the highlights of the era.