A February 2016 analysis by the MIT Media Lab ranked Mackey as the 107th most important influencer of the then-upcoming Election, ranking his account above outlets and individuals such as NBC News (#114), Stephen Colbert (#119) and Newt Gingrich (#141).
Established news has more influence per vote than the voter!
They often have more influence over policy than elected officials.
They decide who is popular and what is popular.
Production has long been a scam. If you ever noticed with pop music.
I always noticed pop music was awful and it was immediately obvious to me that's because the top sells are effectively chosen by publishers who decide to show them in the magazines, on the radio, etc rather than organically rising to success.
How does someone earn the right to be heard of before they've been heard of? This paradox always immediately stuck me and blew the lid off the system so that it's immediately obvious how it all really works.
What we're seeing now is a war for control over the internet which is a major threat to their exclusivity and control. They increasingly can no longer decide what is hot and what is not.
The thing is that when you have these people deciding what it is they think you like they drift away from reality. When an outlet comes a long that lets people increasingly choose what they like an enormous rift forms.
Often between those who need to be told what to like and those who possess their own sense of taste.
Publishers exploited distribution scarcity to be a force of nature selecting against things as they see fit but the internet ends this scarcity. They want their exclusive license back.
This also allowed them to virtually print money. They make things a success or not. They know even where to buy the stocks.
What they're doing now is anti-competition. Trying to outlaw the competing product. Trying to bring down anyone with a bigger audience.
Yeah they're building a false reality for the need-to-be-told and I guess positioning for a moment when they think they can get rid of the rest of us without drawing their ire.
The aide said that guys like me [Suskind] were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
https://theweek.com/articles/854892/what-karl-rove-right-about-realitybased-community
This is the real crime.
https://medium.com/@socialmachines/who-s-influencing-election-2016-8bed68ddecc3#.e6ttb042q
Established news has more influence per vote than the voter!
They often have more influence over policy than elected officials.
They decide who is popular and what is popular.
Production has long been a scam. If you ever noticed with pop music.
I always noticed pop music was awful and it was immediately obvious to me that's because the top sells are effectively chosen by publishers who decide to show them in the magazines, on the radio, etc rather than organically rising to success.
How does someone earn the right to be heard of before they've been heard of? This paradox always immediately stuck me and blew the lid off the system so that it's immediately obvious how it all really works.
What we're seeing now is a war for control over the internet which is a major threat to their exclusivity and control. They increasingly can no longer decide what is hot and what is not.
The thing is that when you have these people deciding what it is they think you like they drift away from reality. When an outlet comes a long that lets people increasingly choose what they like an enormous rift forms.
Often between those who need to be told what to like and those who possess their own sense of taste.
Publishers exploited distribution scarcity to be a force of nature selecting against things as they see fit but the internet ends this scarcity. They want their exclusive license back.
This also allowed them to virtually print money. They make things a success or not. They know even where to buy the stocks.
What they're doing now is anti-competition. Trying to outlaw the competing product. Trying to bring down anyone with a bigger audience.
Yeah they're building a false reality for the need-to-be-told and I guess positioning for a moment when they think they can get rid of the rest of us without drawing their ire.
The aide said that guys like me [Suskind] were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." https://theweek.com/articles/854892/what-karl-rove-right-about-realitybased-community
"Competition is a sin." -John D. Rockefeller