The Net would be harder to control than Radio.
The "marketing geniuses" (Rush, Hannity, etc) are all on our side.. Who do they have?
Without the ability to censor the opposing side, I don’t see how this could happen.
It works in TV and print because the left successfully censored the right out of the picture, while they still pretend they didn’t.
You mean -- like the Democrat Underground?
ROFLAMO. The tool of the tools is turning on them.
BULL! BULL! BULL! The author couldn't be further off mark. REGULATED internet is a threat. The unregulated internet is a powerful weapon for those who fight fascism, government control and censorship. Has it ever come into his mind that it could have been also used to expose Hitler, Coughlin or FDR, for that matter?
The internet, together with (if not more than) talkradi are the last bastions of dissident thought.
Of course it's easier to justify censorship by portraying the "evil internetz" as heirs of Hitler. What a load...
So the internet “...spreads corrosive lies and inflames prejudice...” The MSM has been doing that for decades! When will it’s influence be questioned/banned?
Imagine if today's radically unregulated Internet, with its absence of fact checkers and editorial gatekeepers, had existed back then.
Absence of fact-checkers? What does he call Free Republic, Drudge Report, Atlas Shrugged, etc? Far from being "no" fact checkers, there's tens of millions of fact-checkers, working 24x7.
When the "Editorial Gatekeepers" are at the heel of the totalitarians, and only totalitarian-approved messages can be disseminated, that's when there's disaster brewing, not when there are no editorial gatekeepers at all.
How far would the Dan Rather forgery have gotten if the only "fact checkers" were CBS employees and the "Editorial Gatekeeper" were Dan Rather himself?
Absence of fact checkers?
Perhaps we should retell the story of the Texas National Guard documents and the effect that an absence of fact checkers had on Dan Rather and CBS News.
Let’s see......if we did not have the internet........
Fahrenheit 9/11 would have been a documentary sold to the public without opposing view.
Dan Rather would have successfully circulated a forged document against a sitting president.
Al Gore would have won the White House in 2000.
Bill Clinton would never have been impeached for staining an intern’s dress with his manhood.
Many “studies” against guns would never have been proven to be falsified.
Many “speeches” would never have been proven to be plagurized.
“The 1930s fascists were expert at using all the most technologically sophisticated communications technologies—the cinema, radio, newspapers, advertising—to spew their destructive, hate-filled message. What they excelled at was removing the the traditional middlemen like religion, media, and politics, and using these modern technologies of mass communications to speak with reassuring familiarity to the disorientated masses.”
I don’t think BO needs to do this. He already has the media kissing his A$$. That IS mass communication. They will deliver pretty much whatever message his talking points of the day include. So why bother going around them. I think he will focus more on exploiting that advantage by curbing internet political activity and talk radio. Then his message is the ONLY message people hear.
“We live in an increasingly democratized culture in which individuals, tragically, have less and less control over their own economic lives.”
HUH?
“.... why would we want to give all Americans universal broadband access at the very moment when millions of them will be unemployed, disorientated and angry?”
I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we make an exception of Andrew Keen of “The Daily Beast” ?
This is the same guy who called printing presses evil in colonial America. A responsible press is a wonderful thing for those who decide what is irresponsible. For anyone else, it is a gag and the single most useful weapon of the tyrant.
A couple of thoughts;
Talk radio will be ignored .. we will be put into a frenzy by Congress 'acting on' TFD, but really .. they don't care whether it will go through or not ... haven't they already proven that they can manipulate enough people to mimic a majority? This neo-majority (I'll lay claim to the coinage of the word), is sufficient because of their bruteness to be louder and more effective in being ... well ... louder ... and more repetative.
We are watching the dismantleing of America as she was meant to be in an extremely rapid pace.
Zero took office with the daily press meetings and nominations .. all very professional and 'presidential'.
The internet will be the gathering place of conversation and debate .. and more lefties will come along and be ... um ... louder and more repetative.
They have the time, the power positions, the money .. and folks .. no one wants to say the words but the fact is, all we have are words and bullets.
I truly believe we will have our Lexington Green.
"Palin's performances plunged American Presidential politics to a new nadir in intellectual ignorance, linguistic cheesiness and populist farce. The Couric interview, in particular, revealed a barely literate woman unable to string a coherent sentence together." The 2008 tv election October 10, 2008
I dunno, Andrew - I thought Katie Couric was fairly literate in the interview, even though the overpaid tart doesn't know that FDR didn't "get on TeeVee" in 1929, because he wasn't president, and there were only a handful of experimental TeeVees...
I'm thinking the real Nazi just outed himself. He wants himself and his "journalist" gang to control the Internet for the Obama White House, to shut us ignorant Righties up...