{"id":14273,"date":"2020-11-11T02:15:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T02:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14273"},"modified":"2020-11-11T02:15:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T02:15:39","slug":"democracy-wherefore-art-thou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14273","title":{"rendered":"democracy wherefore art thou?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Court-Painter-x-democracy-question.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14285\" width=\"899\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Court-Painter-x-democracy-question.jpg 899w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Court-Painter-x-democracy-question-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Court-Painter-x-democracy-question-768x812.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tech giants like Facebook and YouTube have created toxic algorithms that push people to extreme content<\/strong>, littered with hate speech and lies. It\u2019s one of the ways groups spreading&nbsp; disinformation are able to grow by the tens of thousands in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This latest selling point of democracy,  championed by the 21 century techno class of myth makers, is the peddling of  the  bifurcated democratic notion and monetization of  &#8220;free speech&#8221; that trumps individual justice, freedom and safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big money in those algorithms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big hurt for democracy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/youtube-couple.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14289\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/youtube-couple.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/youtube-couple-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/youtube-couple-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Court-Painter-youtube-couple.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14290\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Court-Painter-youtube-couple.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Court-Painter-youtube-couple-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Court-Painter-youtube-couple-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants like Facebook and YouTube have created toxic algorithms that push people to extreme content, littered with hate speech and lies. It\u2019s one of the ways groups spreading&nbsp; disinformation are able to grow by the tens of thousands in a matter of hours. This latest selling point of democracy, championed by the 21 century &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14273\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;democracy wherefore art thou?&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14273"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14293,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions\/14293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}