> a society with no control over (certain) information is one which is more vulnerable to control by bad actors.
Centralized (state and/or corporate) control over information is itself an incredible asset to bad actors. Goebbels et al..
Centralized (state and/or corporate) control over information is itself an incredible asset to bad actors. Goebbels et al..
But it gets even worse when you look at lobbyists paid by corporations.
In the long run, Google will have to be split up into smaller pieces. You can't control this evil - and greedy -corporation otherwise anymore.
ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program
Indeed, though you'll notice that ever since the gory coverage of Vietnam the mainstream media censors war to a much higher degree because they learned TV audiences find the true images of war to be unbearable. Public support for war drops sharply when they see the mangled dead bodies of their own soldiers while they eat their TV dinners.
"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam."
-Marshall McLuhan