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[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We used to have Op-Ed sections in newspapers and they used to be literal sections, and lots of people would mail opinions in and hopefully make the cut, and in internet's not-quite-still-an-infant age, BBS used to be used to such an effect as a blog a lot of times, but nothing was ever on the scale of being able to easily broadcast your thoughts to the world unless you were significant enough