This isn't a "what if", they HAVE always been this corrupt and it has been public knowledge for decades.
The difference now is the scale at which the censorship must reach to be effective today.
When all the establishment had to censor was a handful of media companies, it was generally accepted because the public were strictly consumers. Now that the consumers have become the ones being censored, we finally get to see first hand the ramifications of decades of complacency.
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& it sucks arse
If you frame it as a question it will inspire more brain activity in people who may disagree with you. If you frame it as a declarative they mostly just get angry.
In other words, from the context of what I think about it, the question was rhetorical 🤣
I agree with the notion of it having to change drastically in degree because of how different the landscape is.
It’s actually interesting because the community of those powerful in Hollywood and the Television networks was so small that there didn’t even need to be any active conspiracy. It would have just been implicit. You just don’t do or say anything that pisses off The Club.
Now that the boundaries around their little empire have disintegrated into 10,000 pieces, they have to explicitly and viciously enforce what the power they had implicitly held for so long due to the lack of technological avenue for competing information spread.
So the escalation can be thought of as a violent reaction to the loss of power.