Thank you, Rachel, you are wonderful. It's astonishing how the greatest purveyors of hate speech and defamation in the annals of recorded human history accuse mild-mannered, soft spoken, objective people of... hate speech. What a suck joke!
Thanks Rachel that was good a great guest. Same thing with UK two party system we’ve just had Keir Starmer (Sir) elected replacing the Tories ie Conservatives and there’s going to be no change it’s more of same. Allegedly US/Uk three letter agencies run whoever the Uk government
What your guest was hinting at, referring to broadcasting on multiple channels, is anticipating the next wave of online communication, where we move from a centralized information environment such as YouTube, to a distributed model, where your desktop is part of a multi-peer network running open source software that cuts platforms like YouTube out of the equation entirely. We're not quite there yet. Content providers are still working to the old model, which is a replication of the TV broadcast environment on a smaller scale.
"The content of any medium is always another medium, and the message of the new medium is the change of scale/pace/pattern that it introduces into human affairs." Marshal Mcluhan - Understanding Media.
It's amusing to watch the authorities running around trying to stomp out internet brush fires, although not so much if you're on the receiving end. Still, it's really just a game of whack-a-mole because the nature of the new medium allows a multiplicity of channels, to the point that no single channel can hold its ground for very long. The old top-down mass media model of the TV based generation that sees things in terms of audience size, and feels threatened when opposing views appear to be gaining traction - all that is obsolete now, or soon will be.
People who are driven by curiosity and fascination about the world they live in have always sought out alternative means of communication beyond what was typically available to the masses, which contained only a single message: trust us, we're the good guys. As a kid I tuned in to Radio Moscow world service, which probably had the most powerful short wave transmitters in the universe. The authorities tried to jam them of course, but they were on so many frequencies transmitting with so much power you could almost always pick them up.
The point is they could no more stop Radio Moscow than they can stop alternative media on the Net. They can jam you for a while, but you'll just find another frequency. The analogue here is to multi-user distributed communications channels which bypass the gatekeepers. We're not quite there yet, but it's coming, and it will change the game completely.
In the meantime, it's important to remember that change happens at the margin. A large audience may be important from a revenue perspective, but it can actually be a hindrance if the aim is to communicate clear ideas and subject them to open criticism. You have the beginning of that in the message boards, where a discussion can continue, with ideas and information exchanged long after a program has concluded. A network effect, as opposed to a one-way top down transmission, which is the TV environment.
People with natural curiosity will always seek out new sources of information. It's a feature of human intelligence once it reaches a certain threshold. The situation today is that it's no longer possible to maintain an official narrative via mass media because the medium has changed completely. It's multi-dimensional now, and can't be effectively controlled. That's where all the panic and hysteria are coming from. The controllers are losing control.
Thank you, Rachel, you are wonderful. It's astonishing how the greatest purveyors of hate speech and defamation in the annals of recorded human history accuse mild-mannered, soft spoken, objective people of... hate speech. What a suck joke!
Thanks Rachel that was good a great guest. Same thing with UK two party system we’ve just had Keir Starmer (Sir) elected replacing the Tories ie Conservatives and there’s going to be no change it’s more of same. Allegedly US/Uk three letter agencies run whoever the Uk government
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What your guest was hinting at, referring to broadcasting on multiple channels, is anticipating the next wave of online communication, where we move from a centralized information environment such as YouTube, to a distributed model, where your desktop is part of a multi-peer network running open source software that cuts platforms like YouTube out of the equation entirely. We're not quite there yet. Content providers are still working to the old model, which is a replication of the TV broadcast environment on a smaller scale.
"The content of any medium is always another medium, and the message of the new medium is the change of scale/pace/pattern that it introduces into human affairs." Marshal Mcluhan - Understanding Media.
It's amusing to watch the authorities running around trying to stomp out internet brush fires, although not so much if you're on the receiving end. Still, it's really just a game of whack-a-mole because the nature of the new medium allows a multiplicity of channels, to the point that no single channel can hold its ground for very long. The old top-down mass media model of the TV based generation that sees things in terms of audience size, and feels threatened when opposing views appear to be gaining traction - all that is obsolete now, or soon will be.
People who are driven by curiosity and fascination about the world they live in have always sought out alternative means of communication beyond what was typically available to the masses, which contained only a single message: trust us, we're the good guys. As a kid I tuned in to Radio Moscow world service, which probably had the most powerful short wave transmitters in the universe. The authorities tried to jam them of course, but they were on so many frequencies transmitting with so much power you could almost always pick them up.
The point is they could no more stop Radio Moscow than they can stop alternative media on the Net. They can jam you for a while, but you'll just find another frequency. The analogue here is to multi-user distributed communications channels which bypass the gatekeepers. We're not quite there yet, but it's coming, and it will change the game completely.
In the meantime, it's important to remember that change happens at the margin. A large audience may be important from a revenue perspective, but it can actually be a hindrance if the aim is to communicate clear ideas and subject them to open criticism. You have the beginning of that in the message boards, where a discussion can continue, with ideas and information exchanged long after a program has concluded. A network effect, as opposed to a one-way top down transmission, which is the TV environment.
People with natural curiosity will always seek out new sources of information. It's a feature of human intelligence once it reaches a certain threshold. The situation today is that it's no longer possible to maintain an official narrative via mass media because the medium has changed completely. It's multi-dimensional now, and can't be effectively controlled. That's where all the panic and hysteria are coming from. The controllers are losing control.