Should mass communication be deliberately dampened?
Examples:
1. Ban on Televsion News during the weekend.
2. High taxes on mass produced media for general audiences.
3. Internet time limit restrictions for social media.
I'm sure I'm not the first to suspect talking all the time to everybody is unhealthy. It sounds like the inverse of autism. I believe surveys show the hyper-social media users are often mentally unstable.
It seems difficult to imagine any reasonable means to restrict communication like this, especially government imposed. Alternate possibilities:
1. People eventually tire of mass online communication and use it less. One can hope!
2. The continued abuse of public internet space by interested groups (political and commercial astroturfing, etc.) results in a drastic decline in the quality of public internet content (tragedy of the commons) and people migrate to more niche semi-private communities.
Examples:
1. Ban on Televsion News during the weekend. 2. High taxes on mass produced media for general audiences. 3. Internet time limit restrictions for social media.
I'm sure I'm not the first to suspect talking all the time to everybody is unhealthy. It sounds like the inverse of autism. I believe surveys show the hyper-social media users are often mentally unstable.