I remember the days when the hysteria around social networks
was just beginning. Then, and this is 2004-2006, it was customary
to talk a lot about blogs and the so-called citizen journalism.
As a about alternative to professional media. Where each participant
in the "project" was a volunteer reporter from his own life.
It was for the expansion of such popular democracy that, among
other things, the tools LiveJournal, MySpace and others were
created. The grandfathers of modern social media. The tragic
events in Thailand served as the beginning of this case on the
transition to conditional Web 2.0. When in December 2004 the
tsunami claimed about 300 thousand lives. For those who do not
know about it or do not remember, for the first time in history, news
channels began to publish videos of the tragedy from MySpace, filmed
with communicators and digital cameras. This event is considered a
conditional Rubicon separating Web 1 from Web 2 as a media.
Many years have passed since then. Social media, with millions of
non-professional blogger journalists, has become machines of
propaganda and mass censorship. And the entire blogosphere has
lost influence and respect in the eyes of the masses. Because because
of the backs of famous bloggers, the ears of special journalism,
or more simply, special services, have long been sticking out.
Everything was born out of secret government institutions as
well as political foundations. Suddenly, the "independent" citizen
journalists who wrote, the quote: "There are millions of us, who
is against us?", Faced not only censorship, but also an invisible
glass wall separating them from legitimation. In other words,
access to personalized YouTube TV channels, closed on the
principle of "one hand washing the other", classic media, streams
of important cyber persons and other generously paid geopolitical
projects.
Most people continued to be ignorant of this fact. So far, social
media managers have banned about 80 million followers of the
legitimate US President Donald Trump. A practice worthy of communist
China. That is why today more than ever civil communication means
are in demand in the form of chats / forums / BBS / usenet
conferences, as well as IRC, MSN, Jabber, DC ++, P2P networks
and so on. Their owners, through censorship similar to Russian or
corporate ones, were willingly drawn into geopolitics. It is because
of they civic position in relation to corporate and government social
networks. For example, TikTok began deleting posts critical of Putin
following a Kremlin appeal.
For more than a decade, marketers and PR technologists have been
discriminating against this conditional "internet 1". Economists say
about that as outdated solution. Political scientists about that as
non-moderate content. But it suddenly was in demand! Home and
local social neworks, communication servers running even on a
smart iron, and so on. All this was revived thanks to the public
and began to arouse genuine interest.
The uniqueness of this moment lies in the fact that all the hidden
actions of special services result in a public war of compromising
evidence of Web 2.0. At the same time, the information field is so
densely clogged with garbage. That it is no longer possible in the
stream of crap to somehow highlight events. The content gushes
with shit and it is not clear where is the truth and where is fiction,
where is important news, and where is not. Either way, 85% of
Web 2.0 content is still created by 15% of accounts. Remember
this when you talk bad about BBS or Gopher. Because the future
of citizen journalism is BBS!
