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Social media spread baseless conspiracies, true | |||
But can regulation get anywhere at all? | |||
I have this mental image of social media as a giant blob of mercury spilled all over the globe. | |||
Who could begin to regulate all those slippery bits of liquid metal? | |||
Try to grab a blob, it squirts away into smaller blobs. | |||
We will get regulation, all right — no end of it. | |||
But will our regulation accord with the nature of Hermes? | |||
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Revision as of 09:00, 28 January 2021
"The Nature of Hermes" is a short essay by Karl Jones.
The Nature of Hermes
Social media spread baseless conspiracies, true
But can regulation get anywhere at all?
I have this mental image of social media as a giant blob of mercury spilled all over the globe.
Who could begin to regulate all those slippery bits of liquid metal?
Try to grab a blob, it squirts away into smaller blobs.
We will get regulation, all right — no end of it.
But will our regulation accord with the nature of Hermes?
In the News
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