How Trolls Overran the Public Square
&gt; &quot;There is now a near-consensus – at least among those who are not completely steeped in social-media propaganda – that the current public sphere does not serve us well.&quot;<p>Anyone who doesn&#x27;t agree with my conclusion obviously shouldn&#x27;t be listened to because they&#x27;re part of the problem.<p>I don&#x27;t know how you can un-ironically say &quot;We need to stop handing off responsibility for maintaining public space to corporations and algorithms – and give it back to human beings. We may need to slow down, but we’ve created democracies out of chaos before.  [...]&quot; while arguing for more institutional gate-keeping. The, mostly, free discourse we have on the internet today is more democratic than it was prior to the Gutenberg revolution or the rise of radio. The author just doesn&#x27;t like the results so they insist we need to go back to the older simpler way where the aristocracy gets to decide what ideas are acceptable because they know better than the common man what&#x27;s good for him.