Originally Published in Madras Courier
Editorial Note
Social media companies, with their unfettered power, could collapse democracies & create a dystopian future.
Democracy, specifically representative democracy, is consummated through universal adult franchise. Globally, it is dispensed through constitutional morality and secular institutions, with the moral first principles of autonomy and equality forming its hallowed foundation. However, the citadels of democracy always remained ideal in letter and spirit and consequently crumbled under the ponderous weight of ineptitude, inequality, repression, and corruption.