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The end of social media

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is There a Way to Dismantle the Internet?

One of the great promises of the internet from the very start was what we now called democratization, that everyone would have a voice as a kind of publisher. That's a great and forward-thinking idea, but the problem is that you actually don't want everyone to have a voice on everything all the time. So instead of everyone getting like a little bit more voice that they were going to be careful with, which of course they weren't, everyone got in their heads that they were the same kind of global broadcaster or potentially the same kinds of global broadcast. And then you see it work, right? You see in Alex Jones, there's someone arise or just whomever, like your

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