Chomsky wrote the book Manufacturing Consent, which popularized the term. People tend to go with the group, so you can get them to consent to a lot by making it appear like a group decision. Chomsky pads that out into a whole book about how the media does it in particular, but notably avoids academia entirely.
To illustrate the idea, consider that the media shows every pro-abortion rally, but no one even knows about the massive anti-abortion rally every year in DC. Here it is happening on a smaller and even more distributed scale. A single tweet can be used to justify censorship, regardless of the quantity of opposition, and that act of censorship can be used by another company as justification to ban it too. Potentially, one progressive at every retailer can get the entire market to ostensibly consent to book burnings.
Thank you for explaining in detail. I'd thought you meant the censor could've sent the statement reinstating the book, not the original tweet, and that's where I got confused.
I appreciate the extra details though about manufacturing consent.
It's called manufacturing consent. The person inside of Target that wanted to censor the book could have sent the Twat themselves.
Can you elaborate what you mean? That phrase sounds familiar.
Chomsky wrote the book Manufacturing Consent, which popularized the term. People tend to go with the group, so you can get them to consent to a lot by making it appear like a group decision. Chomsky pads that out into a whole book about how the media does it in particular, but notably avoids academia entirely.
To illustrate the idea, consider that the media shows every pro-abortion rally, but no one even knows about the massive anti-abortion rally every year in DC. Here it is happening on a smaller and even more distributed scale. A single tweet can be used to justify censorship, regardless of the quantity of opposition, and that act of censorship can be used by another company as justification to ban it too. Potentially, one progressive at every retailer can get the entire market to ostensibly consent to book burnings.
Edward Bernays wrote about it well before Chomsky
Bernays was an evil genius. Chomsky is a pale imitation, although he appears to have lost his job as propaganda minister recently.
Thank you for explaining in detail. I'd thought you meant the censor could've sent the statement reinstating the book, not the original tweet, and that's where I got confused.
I appreciate the extra details though about manufacturing consent.