Hacker News Reader

Implicitly, this piece is making an argument for a return to gate keepers/taste makers of yore. I'm not sure that's better. For better or worse, would the BLM movement have the power and reach it does today if it were filtered through establishment news sources?

View on HN

It was filtered through establishment news sources.

Right, but not on social media. The OP's point.

So called establishment media has in no way been critical of the movement though. Or other adjacent “movements” or ideas.

They couldn’t be even if they wanted and that is the problem. You can’t really trust dishonest media that runs on fear.

“Twitter is not on the masthead of the NYT, but it has become its editor.”

My greatest worry is that the freedom of speech lasted for so long because people were careful about what they used it for.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com