Inventing Reality

you are conflating the internet with capitalism and its old propaganda though.

the internet was initially idealized in a decentralized way, and the problems of profit-driven, proprietary, centralized and monopolized software were being talked about for decades now.

i've been hearing about facebook testing out emotional manipulation, addictive designs and personality profiling for the better part of a decade now to little fanfare.

democracy was never a thing in the west, it's just that we just reached the find out stage where they don't need to hide it anymore.