Originally Posted by
DrNewGod
Bottom line: The Internet, and more specifically, Social Media has absolutely no accountability mechanism. In the US it should have come under the FCC years ago.
I won't speak to other countries, but The US, once upon a time, was wise in subjecting Radio and it's successors too regulation that made them responsible for what content they carried.
Does that bias the media toward TPTB? Absolutely. Especially in the case of a PTB that's a ruthlessly oppressive dictator.
However, it also gives a society a mechanism to thwart a ruthlessly oppressive insurgent that would love to disrupt your (admittedly, flawed) democratic republic in favor of their preferred theocratic and/or socialist wet dream.