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Comment Re:"not to be harvested, but to be heard" (Score 1) 112

There is a lot of truth in what you say, and the idea that we should all be able to shout from the rooftops and be heard by a global audience is definitely more than just flawed. But I think it ignores the larger issue that has been going on, and that social media has largely undermined. Namely, how do we determine which voices to filter out, and which to elevate? Just limiting us to geographic or real relationship bubbles might be useful filtering mechanisms, but it doesn't address the problem of ever dwindling journalism, and the lack of aggregated news outlets that can be topical and informative without just being a morass of engagement bait and shouting at clouds. Walter Cronkite is long gone, and that type of platform and degree of trust and responsibility probably doesn't fit in our current world and technology. And even if such individuals did exist with a working team behind them to filter and fact check, how are we to find them out of a sea of competing voices of would be influencers, meme farmers, and cat video enthusiast?

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