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How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet

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83 points ecliptik | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 16:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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themafia ◴[08 Dec 25 18:54 UTC] No.46196163[source]▶
> How the creator economy destroyed the internet

Let's put the blame where it belongs. Monopolistic companies destroyed the internet.

> This is the media ecosystem we live in now — a supercharged shopping system that thrives on outrage, dominates the culture, and resists any real scrutiny because no one’s really in charge

That's the media ecosystem you've lived in your entire life. The internet, as always, just scaled up what we already had.

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1. CodingJeebus ◴[08 Dec 25 19:12 UTC] No.46196345[source]▶
For real. I used think that society really suffered from a fractured media ecosystem compared to the monolithic pre-internet media era until I learned about how the US gov used the media to sway public opinion on invading Iraq back in 2003.

I don’t know if the current media environment is better than what we had then, but it’s pretty foolish to think that it’s automatically worse based on US foreign policy going back the last 50 years alone.

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