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kleinbl00 · 2002 days ago · link · · parent · post: What would the world look like if we took online threats seriously?
You should probably read Ryan Holiday's Trust Me I'm Lying. He draws the parallel between the modern Internet and the yellow journalism broadsheets of the 1870s and points out that what killed yellow journalism was a subscription model. The fundamental problem, as I see it, is that our greatest innovators on the Internet are those with an ad-based revenue structure. Here it is, 2018, and 86% of Google's revenue still comes from ads.