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

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Marco,

it's how the whole article is framed that is disturbing, that it ends with a
common sense recommendation doesn't change the whole tone of the article,

Michel

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 16:14:14 PM +0700, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> > Hi Marco,
> >
> > I did read the article, and it could of course be the journalist, but it
> comes
> > across as quite stupid in my own view,
> >
> > a kind of "wouldn't it be nice to have the gatekeepers back in charge'
>
> ??
>
> maybe this is what _Thompson_ thinks (or that's how it looks from his
> quotes, at least) but not at all what the journalist, starting from
> Thompson as a pretext, concludes:
>
>   The answer lies with us, dear reader.. It's about critical
>   thinking, the ability to hear, see or read a story and ask - what's
>   the context, who's saying what, is the source reliable, what might
>   be missing?  What's the real who, what, how, when and why of the
>   thing.
>
>   ..an informed public making knowledgeable choices no matter how
>   unfiltered the flow of limitless information. It certainly helps
>   next time you hear Obama is a Muslim, you get AIDS from shaking
>   hands, or someone has weapons of mass destruction.
>
> how is this equal to "wouldn't it be nice to have the gatekeepers back
> in charge"?
>
> 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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