Thursday June 8, 2023; 6:53 PM EDT
- Back when I used to study episodes of active citizenship, for those that succeeded in time and those that had a fair chance even if they didn't finally succeed, one necessary ingredient in all of those two kinds of episodes was that people chose to affiliate with like-minded people. If social media is ever to rise up out of its current morass and have a chance at improving and living up to a tolerable portion of the potential for good of a world wide web of communication, it won't be limited to broadcasting methods aimed at us from above and it won't be open to flood-the-zone methods aimed at us from the shadows, as we've seen from Bannon types for years. The tools will need to be altered or newly created that allow people to affiliate with kindred types. It's got to be a basic right, and it's got to be a working part of the tool kit. And then from there . . .#