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user92 · 3832 days ago · link · · parent · post: Chomsky: The Internet is full of people who can’t read and want to talk about sandwiches
This is all about access. All those people sending him one-sentence emails aren't people who would've sent letters prior to the Internet age. But now that everyone has an email address or is on Facebook and Twitter, the unwashed masses have easy access to spew and it's unsettling to the likes of Chomsky. I think what we're seeing is much more related to an increase in access than a dumbing down. The worsening signal-to-noise ratio just makes it look like it's a dumbing down.