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> 2. The charge itself could be applied to any form of media

Correct. Zuck, Dorsey, and PageBrin just stole the old guard's lunch money. Just like broadcast toppled print, papyrus displaced clay cuniform.

It's an old story. The power elite always seize control of popular communications. Technological progress begets a changing of the guard.

> and yet there is a blatant double standard

By whom?

There is always a resentful cohort moaning about "kids these days".

There is always some cranks (like me) performatively rejecting the whole system. Yesterday's Kill Your Television is today's Delete Facebook.

While the masses keep plodding along, amusing themselves as able, self medicating, seeking some kind of respite from the never ending sting of the human condition. Moo.



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