Fair, this isn’t a confident claim from me. I do have a sense that the last decade has been particularly bad in terms of blatant preference falsification, but it’s hard to distinguish “the world was different before then” from “I was younger and didn’t have a great sense of what was going on”.
I’m 62, so I was adult in the ’80s and ’90s. My sense is that the world was different. The consequences of expressing divergent opinion seem much more serious now.
Fair, this isn’t a confident claim from me. I do have a sense that the last decade has been particularly bad in terms of blatant preference falsification, but it’s hard to distinguish “the world was different before then” from “I was younger and didn’t have a great sense of what was going on”.
I’m 62, so I was adult in the ’80s and ’90s. My sense is that the world was different. The consequences of expressing divergent opinion seem much more serious now.