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>On the other, they also promote the dissemination of ideas the knowledge of which poses a threat to the status quo that is, the state towards which a society was coerced to.

Actually, one of the biggest uses of torrents is to disseminate pop culture materials that fall right in the middle of US culture. Probably dwarfing "radical" stuff by many orders of magnitude.



Does popular hip hop music threaten or promote the status quo?


It does the latter.

Only when it was unpopular did it do the former.

Popularity was brought about by its being templated, packaged, and sold, thus bringing it into the status quo's portfolio.




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