Meet the new gatekeeper, worse than the old gatekeeper

We want to be freed ofconstraints, until our freedom from constraints reminds us of why we created the constraints in the first place.

Once upon a time — not so long ago, really — there was something called the mainstream media, and it employed lots of journalists and editors and fact-checkers to filter the news. We came to resent these “gatekeepers,” as we took to callingthem, because they restricted what we read and saw. They were self-interested elites who, granted their hegemony through...