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“My Brother Is So Far Gone”: How Male Influencers Turned The Men In These People’s Lives Toxic
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When it comes to social media ... Regulate, regulate, regulate ... at local, regional, national and international levels
Imagine if all newspapers, magazines, books, publications were unregulated and uncontrolled? What do you think would be published everywhere? Imagine if daily newspapers just had no regulations at all and just ran and published all kinds of nonsense every day pretending everything they said were true? Imagine if regular publications everywhere just published non stop lies and nonsense? Everyone everywhere would go crazy with all kinds of ideas pushed by whatever group to do and think terrible things.
Imagine if all TV news programs, media news shows and information TV shows all just blasted complete nonsense, conspiracy theories and broadcast it all far and wide?
When you don't have any controls or regulation on the mass information that is being shared everywhere ... it turns into the wild west and the world starts to run on rumours, lies, half truths and misinformation. Society breaks down because no one is able to trust anything any more and information becomes a poison that no one wants any more.
You can actually write in a book pretty much what ever you want and I would appreciate if it stayed that way.
I don't think that there is any benefit in pretending that regulating any media is not a difficult tusk. It's a delicate balance act and with social media even trickier, since it's an individual against the state situation.