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Umberto Eco made a striking observation: television has benefited the poor and harmed the rich—in culture, not money. For the peasant who had never set foot in a theater, the single channel brought Pirandello into his home and even taught him Italian; for the cultured bourgeois, it took the theater away and kept him in his armchair. And then he added the second half of his reasoning: with the internet, the exact opposite happens. ✍️ Subscribe to the Prolisso newsletter. You can find it here 👉 https://substack.com/@andreapassador 📚 My novel Emme by Marcello https://amzn.to/4wgSzb6 As an Amazon Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. 📚 SOURCES AND READINGS Umberto Eco, "The Poor on TV and the Rich on the Web" (Il Sole 24 Ore, December 4, 2010) and public lecture at the University of Milan (2014): television has benefited the poor and harmed the cultured; the internet does the exact opposite. The early RAI (1954, single channel): prose and dramas from prime time classics; "It's Never Too Late" by maestro Alberto Manzi (1960-1968), the program that taught a portion of Italy to read and write. Douyin's "youth mode" (ByteDance, starting September 2021): for those under 14 in China, a maximum of 40 minutes per day, a nighttime block from 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM, and a focus on educational content, science experiments, museum visits, and history. Regulatory framework: the revision of the Chinese law on the protection of minors (2021). Western platforms' community guidelines on nudity and explicit content: the ban on pornography as proof that filtering content, even against one's own economic interests, is possible when society demands it. 📌 CHAPTERS 00:00 The Big Mistake (Don't Make This Mistake) 00:30 Eco's Observation: TV, Pirandello, and Maestro Manzi 01:40 Your Feed Is Your Cognitive Diet 02:10 The Algorithm Is an Amplifying Mirror 03:10 It's Not Their Fault: Whose Fault Is It 05:10 Proof That Regulation Is Possible: China and Pornography 06:50 The Mistake: Throwing Away the Library Because of Slot Machines 07:50 How to Train an Algorithm (And a Proposal for You) 08:35 Library or Landfill? 🎙️ Prolisso is the least listened to podcast in Italy. If you enjoyed the video, tell me in the comments which side you're on—have you trained your algorithm or have you walked away? —and if you'd like the video manual for turning social media into a tool for learning, leave a comment below: if you're enough, it'll be one of the next videos. And subscribe to the channel so you don't miss the next episodes. #verbose #social #umbertoeco #algorithm #criticalsense #culture #digital #socialmedia #philosophy #attention