1. Heterogeneity is not a virtue in and of itself. At its worst, it’s disorganized chaos, and leads to the attention seeking behavior that has turned the internet into an outrage machine.
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2. “Independent journalists” still have to eat, and without institutional support, they have to be the marketing and sales department as well as the researcher and fact checker. This is a recipe for more, not less corruption.
3. “Diversity” is an ideological trap for the left. It does not inherently promote solid epistemology. 4chan and X are more “diverse” than Twitter was, but that just means the internet is more full of mis- and disinformation.
First two points are valid critiques, but not really an argument for legacy media, since homogeneous propaganda is obviously worse and corruption happens everywhere. Your third point is just bizarre, since X has clearly homogenised towards promoting nazis.
Yeah this third point is where you completely lost the plot. You could discuss the first 2 but claiming two incel / nazi hotbeds are more diverse than twitter is just ridiculous, especially with Elon promoting his nazi shit. It's all crypto scams, nazis, and far right conspiracy.
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