> #McChesney points out, "the criticism of out-of-control #technology is in large part a critique of out-of-control #commercialism. The loneliness, #alienation, and unhappiness sometimes ascribed to the #Internet are also associated with a #marketplace gone wild."
Discourse about the Internet often proceeds as if digital technology has some kind of mind or will of its own. It does not.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/digital-disconnect_b_2971464
#NormonSolomon on #RobertMcChesney #DigitalDisconnect

> .. when the #Internet began, and this is—it seems like ancient history now—in the ’80s and ’90s, when we first people became aware of it, it was seen largely as a non-commercial oasis. It was a place where people could go and be equal and be empowered as citizens to take on concentrated economic and political power, to battle #propaganda, and there was no #advertising, there was no #commercialism. That was off-limits.
https://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/5/digital_disconnect_robert_mcchesney_on_how
#RobertMcChesney 2013 #DigitalDisconnect