Interesting approach, gonna think about it. So far I didn’t take disinformation as a result of news companies going broke.

Why would people forget that the BBC is more trustworthy then someones uncle, just because his opinion is for free? The distrust in “old authorities” like big newspaper or governments is, in my opinion, a long-term result of the broken promisses of the hegemony they are, or seem to be, part of.

The concept “people have to have to pay for quality information” doesn’t sit right with me. Relevant info should be available for everyone! And trustworthy news orgs should be funded pubicly.

I remember being all “omg great the internet will finally free information everything will be awesome” in like 2008.

Then I read some Marxist analysis saying “nope, rather sooner than later the market principles, as the hegemonial/contemporary means of humans organizing themselves, will fuck it up and it will kinda suck lile everything else”

I even remember that feeling of hope: “nah this time they’re wrong”.

Turns out if you don’t change the political economy, shit trickles up into any nice social project.

… also this is why I love niches like reddit (ba dum tss), feddit