How the Online Right Fell Apart
Moreover, the metaphor breaks down entirely in a post-scarcity, algorithmically mediated world, where there is no obvious relationship between the opinions a person puts forth and where that opinion shows up, often in a mechanically distorted way. The marketplace of ideas assumes a relatively even distribution of megaphones, or a random distributio... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
As it turns out, not long ago there was a whole generation of technologists who aspired to fix the internet. Now, many of these individuals, a portion of which I'm lucky to call friends, don't seem to be very interested in the reformist game anymore. It feels like an entire vibrant movement has been smothered and memory-holed, and nothing has prove
... See moreBryan Lehrer • What Happened to the New Internet?
What unites the far right and the far-out is the hustle on the one hand, and a faith in hyper-individualism on the other.