It is critically important to realize that disinformation and censorship is an existential threat to survival. It is also demonstrable that this problem has been ongoing for decades, as the song 'Harvester of Eyes' by Blue Oyster Cult recorded in the 1970s reveals.
While the internet has enabled us intent on factual information to sidestep professional enemedia, the present desperation of disinformation agents and their resort to censorship reveals that avenue is constricted today, and, absent mesh networking enabling independent sources to maintain communications between peers, is likely to become utterly ineffective in short order.
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Can we make centralized markets for gathering yet also distributed or decentralized control? I think so. The aspect of being notified is important. You don't have to get your notifications form one site itself. Mailing lists where you get notified by email are a good way for people to network the many independent sources. A platform based on open collaboration of information could act as a hub to get relay independent sources in a market place for people to find. I suppose a search engine does that, but they censor now. It takes a principled person to create and sustain it, ensuring the market place stays up for all network.
That's kinda how I use Hive. I only search elsewhere mostly to verify what I have learned here. There are some sources I watch across the net, many of them hostile to my philosophy, because it is those hostile to me that present the greatest threat.