Printing and publishing vested interests check the movement of ideas

Evidence

The vested interests of the printing industry tend to check the movement of ideas and to contribute to the building-up of monopolies, and, ultimately, to the breaking-over into other languages and to the ebb and flow of movements. — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 804

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 804
• XREF: connects to: Mechanized knowledge creates monopolies that endanger freedom of thought — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 1123; Independent publishing can revive a public intellectual discourse — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 292; the MOC “The Authority Apparatus: How Textual Orders Make and Unmake Power”

Broader Connections

• Mechanized knowledge creates monopolies that endanger freedom of thought #corroborates (0.89) — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 1123