A lot of the mainstream media would like to go back to a time before social media where consumers were not seen or heard outside of the letters to the editors page where they can curate what you see from the public.
A good proportion of the ban social media rhetoric is coming from the mainstream media who see social media as a threat.
I still remember the shitshow when news sites had comments. The urinalists were constantly shocked and up in arms that other people dared to have opinions about things. There was even a newspaper where I live that had opening hours on their comment section because they needed someone to sit and moderate it live.
Yeah, I still remember 2014, when the regime change in ukraine was happening.
In Germany the biggest ever piecepotests happened. There were all kinds of people from all over the political spectrum including an ex-chancelor etc.
An entire alternative media landscape evolved to counter the german juntas propaganda and have actual discussions of the war against russia going hot.
First the media launched article after article how all of their viewers and readers are nazis, then when even the normies started asking them if they had shit-for-brains all comment sections were closed.
They were reopened later with heavy moderation and timed windows outside of which they were closed again.
Strangely publishers started whining about needing money from google and taxes not shortly after, as they lost a good chunk of views.
Yahoo's frontpage would have based comments that was amusing to read amidst all the Trump Derangement Syndrome, but they shut that down in time for the 2018 midterms. Since then I've set my bookmark to go straight to email.
This is why most news sites disable comments.
A lot of the mainstream media would like to go back to a time before social media where consumers were not seen or heard outside of the letters to the editors page where they can curate what you see from the public.
A good proportion of the ban social media rhetoric is coming from the mainstream media who see social media as a threat.
I still remember the shitshow when news sites had comments. The urinalists were constantly shocked and up in arms that other people dared to have opinions about things. There was even a newspaper where I live that had opening hours on their comment section because they needed someone to sit and moderate it live.
Yeah, I still remember 2014, when the regime change in ukraine was happening.
In Germany the biggest ever piecepotests happened. There were all kinds of people from all over the political spectrum including an ex-chancelor etc.
An entire alternative media landscape evolved to counter the german juntas propaganda and have actual discussions of the war against russia going hot.
First the media launched article after article how all of their viewers and readers are nazis, then when even the normies started asking them if they had shit-for-brains all comment sections were closed.
They were reopened later with heavy moderation and timed windows outside of which they were closed again.
Strangely publishers started whining about needing money from google and taxes not shortly after, as they lost a good chunk of views.
Yahoo's frontpage would have based comments that was amusing to read amidst all the Trump Derangement Syndrome, but they shut that down in time for the 2018 midterms. Since then I've set my bookmark to go straight to email.