The right to informational quiet follows from the fact that attention belongs to the participant. The mere existence of signal gives no one the right to continuously inject it into another person’s attention — so a participant retains full standing even while not consuming the feed. A society that requires people to monitor constant news in order to remain informed enough to participate has committed a design failure, not achieved an informed citizenry.
Delivery by relevance, not saturation
The alternative is that important signal finds a participant when their standing makes it relevant, while everything else stays optional. Today’s arrangement — here are fifteen hours of information, good luck figuring out what matters — is replaced by here are the few changes that materially affect your standing, responsibilities, projects, resources, or environment; go deeper if you choose. This is the attention-side of renewability (attention is a fragile, renewable resource) and the reason signal-to-noise health matters more than throughput. See How Signal Should Flow.