The crazy part to me is that there are plenty of billionaires who could be convinced to dump some money into a venture- Mercers already did it with Parler.
Worst case scenario, the right gets some assistance from players outside the US who would be happiest seeing us pursue an America First policy; best case, alt tech leads to improvements in decentralization and mainstream media falls apart at the seams. People much prefer citizen journalism to corporate nonsense, from what I can tell.
The crazy part to me is that there are plenty of billionaires who could be convinced to dump some money into a venture- Mercers already did it with Parler.
Worst case scenario, the right gets some assistance from players outside the US who would be happiest seeing us pursue an America First policy; best case, alt tech leads to improvements in decentralization and mainstream media falls apart at the seams. People much prefer citizen journalism to corporate nonsense, from what I can tell.
Hope it plays out that way. I guess Musk has proven to some extent your point. But just not very hopeful at this point that things will change.