Digital media such as social media, messenger groups or comment columns in online media have a predominantly negative influence on political processes. They can encourage populist movements, increase polarization and undermine trust in institutions.
Bullshit. It’s not about digital. It’s about who owns it.
I think foreign countries take advantage of free speech, free press and social media to influence voters in a specific direction. China is one of the major players of this game without any downsides because they have high censorship with domestic replacement apps. All of the popular western apps and sites are banned as well.
It’s the lack of education …
since at least 10 years by now
Digital media adds pleasure and value to my life. Democracy adds nothing but a bunch of bullshit noise about the opinions of people who I don’t care regarding things that I don’t care about. And then after all that nonsense clowning the bureaucrats just do what they were going to do anyways. All those bullshit opinions, the whole dog and pony show are just to get fuckwits to pull a level for them during a popularity contest cultural celebration not unlike primitives dancing around a fire to the sound of drums praying for rain. So, to be direct, I prefer digital media over democracy because digital media is valuable and democracy isn’t.
If I had to pick one or the other I’d pick digital media over democracy any day…
Why? I tried to live in a world with very little digital media and it was fine, an authoritarian dictatorship with digital media sounds like an absolute nightmare.
It’s not the technology, it’s the businesses interests behind such technology.
We live in a time of robber barons and these are just their tools
Profiteering off of outrage? Say it ain’t so!
“Digital media” is a hell of a weird way of saying “capitalism”
I thought this was pretty mega fucken clear at this point.
Pretty maga clear
Stop with the dumb questions already. The answer is any social media platform with inherent interests in selling user data or selling ads are willing to trade anything for more money now. If democratic processes get in the way then so be it to these wastes of oxygen. Now let’s start asking some meaningful questions please.
Where have you been since 2016
This is like looking at roadkill and declaring “cars are a threat to road crossing critters”.
Without digital media, we wouldn’t see genocide in Gaza.
But you especially wouldn’t in a dictatorship.
Yeah that’s what these libs are missing. As members of the ultra-privileged classes, they assume that everything is great. People should trust “institutions”, right?!?
But as people are exposed more to actual reality via digital media and other sources, they don’t want to destroy the planet, genocide people, etc. Nor should they. But this is a direct threat to liberal privilege. Chuck and Nancy want their profits booming until the planet is burning.
