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> 6. People realize this might be a bad thing.

6. Technical experts realize this might be a bad thing, non-technical users are fine with it.

Good or bad, monolithic networks save a lot of ordinary users the pain of having to learn. The reason they might not want to learn varies greatly, but I'll go out on a limb and say it's related to a lack of time and basic backgrounding, in equal measure.

It's not always only about the technically qualified.



> 6. Technical experts realize this might be a bad thing, non-technical users are fine with it.

Right. Tell that to the people that slowly come to the realization that their politic decisions and destiny have been heavily influenced through tools that built on and benefited from this very centralization.

They are (and will be) very fine with it.


we're not talking about mainstream media here. ;)


Facebook _is_ mainstream today, it's even more mainstream than newspapers and tv/radio news networks.




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