Even before Trump's victory, the cultural shift to a millennial activist tech workforce, increasing pressure from Europe and growing desperation by the media over the internet threat were turning points.
As domestic political pressures mounted, nervous governments, especially Merkel's in Germany, came to view big tech companies as unlicensed media operations that allowed "Extremists" to bypass the regulated media with dangerous populist opinions.
The media had to manufacture a crisis that would force regulation of news content on social media platforms.
While Clinton's people blamed their defeat on the Russians, the media seized on the "Fake news" angle to blame Trump's victory on social media misinformation.
The arguments about the dangers of the internet were the same old ones that had been made by the media for a generation.
The media successfully turned its problem, Silicon Valley, into the problem of political elites.
The media is afraid that its industry won't survive the internet.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271043/why-silicon-valley-killing-free-speech-daniel-greenfield
As domestic political pressures mounted, nervous governments, especially Merkel's in Germany, came to view big tech companies as unlicensed media operations that allowed "Extremists" to bypass the regulated media with dangerous populist opinions.
The media had to manufacture a crisis that would force regulation of news content on social media platforms.
While Clinton's people blamed their defeat on the Russians, the media seized on the "Fake news" angle to blame Trump's victory on social media misinformation.
The arguments about the dangers of the internet were the same old ones that had been made by the media for a generation.
The media successfully turned its problem, Silicon Valley, into the problem of political elites.
The media is afraid that its industry won't survive the internet.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271043/why-silicon-valley-killing-free-speech-daniel-greenfield
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