alt Hacker NewsThat coordinated effort also includes the buying up of US media sources by billionaires and gigacorps to control the content of not just news sources and social forums, but every electronic window we have onto the world.
Remember, the panopticon observed people who were in a prison.
The effort significantly predates the recent changes in US media ownership. I would actually argue that the ownership change is mostly orthogonal to the ongoing trend of centralization and top-down manipulation of digital information sources.
A shift change of the prison guards more than a material change to the prison.