Tech Decides Who's Who
Is an Activist’s Pricey House News? Facebook Alone Decides.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/business/facebook-nypost.html
A notable cybertech wizard claimed tech has defeated journalism, knocked it off its self-vaunted pinnacle of trustworthy public information, undermined its lockhold on what to tell, deflated its domination of 1A righteousness to boost its sanctimony on whats fit to print, denuded its cloak of damnation for sinfully outing what sinners hoped to keep among themselves, as if what journalists knew was too precious to blab without mercy, no matter that whispers of this insider poop was a gold rush for bargaining for ever more perfidy to feed the sluices of if-you-knew-what-we-know.
Leaks sites like WikiLeaks arose to challenge this hegemony of insider supremacy over outsiders, but it was not long in joining lawyers and judges and doctors and pastors and psychiatrists and journalists, and above all national security cartels, in teasing and squeezing the official privilege to romance consumers with bar talk of access to stuff almost beyond belief, though hardly beyond bragging about and screaming to not dare diminish favoritism obtained by governmental blessing to game the hearts and minds of poor suckers condemned to fork over a big piece of their income to piggishly grinning regulators of faux constitutional democratic institutions modeled on ancient royalties and religions wherein the keepers of the jewelry and the faith were able to enjoy lifestyles the peasants could only experience as ill-paid help.
So, as Mammon rules, tech royals emulate predecessors in deciding who's who.