[p2p-research] The Internet Is Absolute Democracy - Be Very Afraid!

[Michel Bauwens]

hmm ... the classic critique about the internet was its fragmentation and
lack of unified public space,

now they're saying everybody thinks the same on the internet?

Michel

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> "Bob Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University...
> is concerned about the Internet's corrosive impact on "the precarious
> nature of authority. It's potentially dangerous. It's a complete
> democratization of information where unverified knowledge is often the
> result of our own emotional state"
>
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-alderman/the-internet-is-absolute_b_190099.html
>
> I instinctively _feel_ this is connected somehow with recent threads
> about the dangers of iperconnectivity, ie the lack of evolution inside
> systems where everybody thinks the same thing thanks to the Internt,
> through I still have to work out how.
>
> marco
> --
> Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how
> software is used *around* you:            http://digifreedom.net/node/84
>
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