Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Guardian; Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand free speech in the 21st century
"The problem of the 21st century is cacophony. Too many people are
yelling at the same time. Attentions fracture. Passions erupt. Facts
crumble. It’s increasingly hard to deliberate deeply about complex
crucial issues with an informed public. We have access to more knowledge
yet we can’t think and talk like adults about serious things...
The thing is, a thriving democracy needs more than motivation, the
ability to find and organize like-minded people. Democracies also need
deliberation. We have let the institutions that foster discussion among
well informed, differently-minded people crumble. Soon all we will have
left is Facebook. Look at Myanmar to see how well that works."
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