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Information is key to the success or failure of government in the modern world. All types of governments and regimes hold this to be self-evidently true. All , want to control the information citizens can access, and which bits to suppress. It is less of a dilemma in a dictatorship than it is in a democracy because of the much vaunted press freedom.
The advent of Twitter and other social media outlets in the last couple of decades has been seized upon by Western leaders as the magic wand that would finally prise open the monopoly of information enjoyed by authoritarian regimes they have spent so much time condemning in other countries. What has happened, however, is that social media has also tested and stretched , the limits of liberal tolerance for undiluted, and unfiltered information.
Once upon a time in America, Australia, and the United Kingdom, the vast media space was dominated by a single “press baron”, the Australian-American, Rupert Murdock. At one point, he was in direct control of nearly two-thirds of the media outlets in those three significant territories. Across Western Europe and North America, all the major news outlets have been owned by people whose political sympathies could be swayed in exchange for specific campaign promises and policies.
The genius of Twitter is that it enables the subscriber to build up ‘followers’ in their thousands and millions. And, with that comes the ability to communicate and disseminate raw information in real time, and across the globe, at minimal cost. It is the most disruptive intervention to the conventional press in modern time. Suddenly, what people get to hear and read no longer emanates from recognised media outlets only.
The question that is exercising everyone around the globe at the moment is whether Twitter and the other giant social media outlets should be regulated, or worse, ‘cut to size’.
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