> So it looks like CBS is going to have to get used to
> having 20 million fact checkers looking over their
> sholder from now on.
From now on?
Free political speech has been flowing on the Internet,
and the ARPAnet before it, for over 20 years. CBS is
just a little slow to notice.
They need to worry less about who will be checking on them,
and more about whether CBS will be around for anyone to
bother checking on.
True, but it didn't matter then. Now, with something like 75% of the American Households having some access to the net, and web publishing something a high schoold dropout can master, it can no longer be ignored.
It was easy to ignore 5000 radicals at various colleges. Even if they proved their point and showed the documetation, nobody would listen, and you couldn't get it aired to save your sole. But now we need no one else's concent or approval to get something really wide exposure.
But, be that as it may, the important part of this is not now widespread it is, but how adept the American public is at filtering the sewage from the wine. How well and how quickly the word spreads and the forged documents were found out. One day. One F*ing day!