so I don't come off as -too- much of a grumpy ass,
-props- to the Protest label and to Thurston!
looks great....!
I was just fact checking some disinformation.
P
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quoted 5 lines From: "Peter Becker " <pbecker3@nyc.rr.com>
>From: "Peter Becker " <pbecker3@nyc.rr.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: -OT- fact check/correction ( Thurstons' new MP3 label )
>Date: Mon, Apr 7, 2003, 8:30 AM
>quoted 34 lines sorry for the late response. I'm on the digest.
> sorry for the late response. I'm on the digest.
> sorry as well for the OT of this, but I just couldn't ignore this one.
>
> The Internet was certainly and absolutely -not-
> created as a tool of democracy. It was created by the military for
> communications and national defense purposes. This is not some whacko
> conspiracy theory ( which I often am a subscriber to ) but pretty
> undisputed, objectively researchable fact. It is -not- demonized by
> corporations, it is -for the most part- OWNED by corporations. It is perhaps
> feared by the government but there do exist theories that the
> government enjoys the distraction we all pursue with the Internet.
> If the populace is busy enjoying their online dissent freedoms,
> a false sense of democracy takes over, keeping people complacent while
> geopolitics rage on and old modes reign supreme.
> I think the Net might give new relevance to "old" concepts
> like Diaspora and social movement,but more likely will just be another tool
> to make the citizens feel like they're facilitating change. After all, the
> telephone and the PC didn't end Wars, why would the Internet?
>
> Peter
> np:
>
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>>From: idm-digest-help@hyperreal.org
>>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>>Subject: idm Digest 7 Apr 2003 01:24:54 -0000 Issue 2121
>>Date: Sun, Apr 6, 2003, 9:24 PM
>>
>> Ryan Goldman reports:
>> The Internet was conceived as a tool of democracy.
>> Although demonized by corporations and feared by the
>> government, the World Wide Web is a community at the
>> frontier of change everlasting, giving new relevance
>> to old concepts like Diaspora and social movement.