• J Lou@mastodon.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    There are ways of solving such problems when they arise. We could take some elements from quadratic funding and allow people to make negative contributions to media sources they distrust as well as positive contributions to media sources they trust.

    The German system sounds like the government gets to decide which organizations are considered media institutions, which sounds problematic

    • orrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      well in the German system it’s independent of the government, but honestly, populism is still worse, because you will get the same radicalizing pressures, but with “negative contributions” you now turned media into a winner take propaganda institution, ironically making the “manufactured consent” truth

        • orrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          if you allow people to “contribute negatively” then the largest unified block can and will out “negatively spend” other blocks, driving said “oppositional media” out of business.