About three years ago Cass Sunstein wrote a book called Republic.Com, with gushy cover blurbs from Ted Kennedy and other liberals, advocating government control of the Internet to guarantee that Internet users are exposed to multiple points of view. Sunstein is apparently clueless that a site like this does just that - people post all sorts of contrary points of view, more than you get from watching CBS News. Sunstein worried about the fragmentation of opinion, and that the public is not getting a standard unifying dose of daily propaganda from a liberal Walter Cronkite-type. So liberals would very much like to control information on the Internet and suppress or mitigate non-liberal opinion, if only they could figure out how. Until they can do it, they will denigrate the Internet and New Media as much as possible, try to discredit it every way they can. Quite simply, many liberals want a monopoly in the media.
And no eye contact from the peasants.
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