Posted on 04/19/2014 5:05:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be consumed, President Bill Clinton's White House feared that the Internet was allowing average citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and access information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
The infamous 1995 "conspiracy commerce memo" tried to demonize and discredit alternative media outlets on the right to mainstream media organizations and D.C. establishment figures.
The memo notes that the "Internet has become one of the major and most dynamic modes of communication" and "can link people, groups and organizations together instantly."
"Moreover, it allows an extraordinary amount of unregulated data and information to be located in one area and available to all," the memo states. "The right wing has seized upon the Internet as a means of communicating its ideas to people. Moreover, evidence exists that Republican staffers surf the Internet, interacting with extremists in order to exchange ideas and information.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
It’s good to remember that Drudge broke the Monica Lewinsky story.
Or, technically, we should say, Drudge broke the story of the fact that the Washington Post and Newsweek had the Lewinsky story for months, and were sitting on it. They had refused to publish it because, well, probably because it would be bad news for Clinton.
Can you imagine the MSM sitting on the story of a presidential affair if a Republican were the president????
“Imagine if LBJ, Hitler, FDR, Woodrow Wilson or J. Edgar Hoover had been around after the Internet came around.”
Just think if the internet had been around back then. Just
imagine where we would be right now without it. If it
weren’t for the internet we would probably be right in
the middle of a civil war right now.
not sure if they would have been stopped-
Look at the Bundy showdown- and ask friends
and family about what happened-
They will look at you ...as if your nuts-
I can only email them the youtube video-
I still don’t think they believe it!
One of the more profound presentations on the impact of the internet.
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/constcoal/Drudge.html
Anyone With A Modem Can Report On The World
Address Before the National Press Club
Matt Drudge | June 2, 1998
Either we wouldn’t fight, because nobody would know what was going on, or it would be the longest civil war in recorded history.
If Republican staffers were interacting with someone it is doubtful that they were “extremist”.
But there were some out there on the internet that those in the Clinton administration did consider extremist like John Robinson.
These people held and hold extreme beliefs like the government should spend less, regulate less, guard the borders more and spend less time and effort trying to change the American Culture away from traditional American values like personal responsibility and the nuclear family.
The Clintons feared these people with good reason. These people helped expose his lies and disseminated the truth of his duplicity. The national press could no longer completely shield him from the exposure of his immoral and illegal acts.
Unfortunately for the country along with the Internet’s democratization of news gathering and distribution came the Internet Bubble that lifted the economy enough that the people of the US did not want to rock the economic boat by bringing down a president.
So Clinton was able to survive to the end of his term and the country is the worse for it.
I’ll bet Algore regrets inventing the internet now! Probably wouldn’t have very many climate deniers if it were not for the net. You shoulda thought things through albert.
Algore made 100 mil just selling his stake in CurrenTV to All Jazz.
He’s feeling pretty good these days...
Money is one thing, but exterminating all deniers is another. Algore will not ever be happy until every last denier is vaporized.
Before the world wide web and web browsers, there was still a vibrant net of people posting online in USENET newsgroups, AOL, COMPUSERVE, and others. Those groups had always tended towards libertarian, and not the democratic talking points. It was perceptive of the Clintons to notice that they couldn't control it.
This is, especially, the kind of news he would prefer you not hear. And you won’t from America’s media:
Bill Clinton identified in lawsuit against his former friend and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who had ‘regular’ orgies at his Caribbean compound that the former president visited multiple times
Now, they've had years to infiltrate. The mods catch some, but there's still a number of the plants around. Just look at the Bundy threads from the beginning of the story.
The shills were touting for .gov against the "deadbeat" rancher who "wouldn't pay his grazing fees".
Bundy can't pay the grazing fees to the BLM until he signs their contract. Once he signs their contract, he's toast.
In the Whitewater days, this story would have rolled over the opposition.
that is how you know there is something wrong with democrats. they FEAR truth getting out
“Republican staffers surf the Internet, interacting with extremists in order to exchange ideas and information.”
And the demoncrats don’t, apparantly
That was a VERY interesting read!
All of those ‘legacy media’ people had NO IDEA what was about to hit them!
A book named ‘Hillary’s secret war’ from the 90s is required reading on this topic. She immediately saw the danger and tried like hell to give the government actual control over Internet content.
A great read. . And even more amazing when you see that they are still trying to wrest control of it from the public at large. The book was prophesy
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