DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: Disney Chief Bob Iger Calls for Civil Discourse, Warns “Hitler Would Have Loved Social Media.”

The Disney chief, for his part, asserted, “Hitler would have loved social media,” suggesting that it is “constantly validating our convictions and amplifying our deepest fears” and “makes it far too easy to deny our shared humanity.” He emphasized that “it is possible to argue policy without attacking people” and that “we have to change how we talk to each other” before suggesting, “Maybe we should just start by reconnecting with those friends and family members that we haven’t spoken to since the 2016 election.”

Despite the ongoing efforts of the management of Twitter and Facebook, it is still possible to (more or less) freely exchange ideas there. In contrast to the notion that “Hitler would have loved social media,” in reality:

With the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, many new laws and prohibitions were established in Nazi Germany, forcing the population to decide whether to obey the Nazi regime or to risk being declared “criminals”. One of those new laws introduced on 1 September 1939, the first day of the German Invasion of Poland, concerned the “extraordinary radio-measures act” (German: Verordnung über außerordentliche Rundfunkmaßnahmen). This law prohibited deliberate listening to any foreign radio station under threat of penal servitude. Likewise all non-governmental radio transmissions were banned and all critical equipment of German amateur radio operators were seized by the Reichspost authorities.

If only Bob had an entire news division at his disposal to inform him of these things.