The removal of conspiracy enthusiast content by InfoWars brings us to an interesting and important point in the history of online discourse. The current form of Internet content distribution has made it a broadcast medium akin to television or radio. Apps distribute our cat pics, our workouts, and our YouTube rants to specific audiences of followers, […]
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Alex Jones
Ambassador
Apps
berlin
Cbs
Christmas
Europe
Fake News
Gawker
Germany
hitler
Infowars
instagram
Mike Arrington
Mt. Everest.
new media
Nick Denton
President
Reporter
Social
Social Media
stormfront
TC
Television
user generated content
It could be said that the first few years of this current tech boom were fueled by mostly harmless, relatively easy products—websites for sharing your photos, for looking up stuff, for connecting with old friends. And the people who made them were seen as mostly good people. Yet this feel-good perception has slowly and then suddenly disappeared. Users have begun to regard once trusted…