Coulter: yet another person who still doesn't fully understand the internet. I spent most of my career dealing with these people. Breitbart is great, but stopping or not stopping it is not the determining factor on Biden senility narrative. If a Biden "Insane in the Membrane" meme is truly funny and/or poignant, it will go viral regardless whether tech companies/media like it or not.
Moving content is their business model, and they limit that movement at their peril. The business consequences for doing so are inevitable. If they do it enough, as Reddit is finding out: they create their own competition. This is how Fox News came to exist, and thrive: the lack of discipline, leadership, and objective thought by the existing businesses created the conditions for it to succeed. It could not have been otherwise. Fox News, and this site, owe their very existence to incompetent, emotion-first business decisions and the unmitigated morons that made them.
Coulter, etc. still think in terms of gatekeepers. They think that while there may be more gatekeepers and some have changed, since the ABC/CBS/NBC/NYTimes days, that's it's still about gatekeepers.
They are wrong. Right == Content is Reddit's only feature. It's really about individual pieces of content(regardless of "good"/"bad" = 2 girls one cup), each http link itself, moving based solely on their empirical, absolute value. If that value is high, they will move. But, it's also a scale and connectivity matter. It's not one site vs. other sites/media outlets, or one "side".
Rather, it's a mass of nodes, and if the content moves on enough of those nodes consecutively? There is no stopping it. It will go everywhere. The media Coulter thinks can actively prevent this movement, will be reacting to it instead. Example: The relatively recent Ted Cruz tweets. He dropped 3-4 bombs, almost one a day, and they were so high value, the media was either compelled, to write a story about them, or avoid him for fear of getting a bomb dropped on them.
Our tasks, ladies and gentlemen, should therefore be obvious.
Coulter: yet another person who still doesn't fully understand the internet. I spent most of my career dealing with these people. Breitbart is great, but stopping or not stopping it is not the determining factor on Biden senility narrative. If a Biden "Insane in the Membrane" meme is truly funny and/or poignant, it will go viral regardless whether tech companies/media like it or not.
Moving content is their business model, and they limit that movement at their peril. The business consequences for doing so are inevitable. If they do it enough, as Reddit is finding out: they create their own competition. This is how Fox News came to exist, and thrive: the lack of discipline, leadership, and objective thought by the existing businesses created the conditions for it to succeed. It could not have been otherwise. Fox News, and this site, owe their very existence to incompetent, emotion-first business decisions and the unmitigated morons that made them.
Coulter, etc. still think in terms of gatekeepers. They think that while there may be more gatekeepers and some have changed, since the ABC/CBS/NBC/NYTimes days, that's it's still about gatekeepers.
They are wrong. Right == Content is Reddit's only feature. It's really about individual pieces of content(regardless of "good"/"bad" = 2 girls one cup), each http link itself, moving based solely on their empirical, absolute value. If that value is high, they will move. But, it's also a scale and connectivity matter. It's not one site vs. other sites/media outlets, or one "side".
Rather, it's a mass of nodes, and if the content moves on enough of those nodes consecutively? There is no stopping it. It will go everywhere. The media Coulter thinks can actively prevent this movement, will be reacting to it instead. Example: The relatively recent Ted Cruz tweets. He dropped 3-4 bombs, almost one a day, and they were so high value, the media was either compelled, to write a story about them, or avoid him for fear of getting a bomb dropped on them.
Our tasks, ladies and gentlemen, should therefore be obvious.