The rise of the online citizen

[goclark]

Carlos Watson, the new reporter on CNN, has started a newspaper column. This article talks about the upper hand that Democrats have in using the Internet as a political tool.

Check out the article and let us know what you thing.


http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/17/polls/index.html

[swag]

1. There are more of us online because

we're not too stupid to read the fuckin' manual.

[uberotto]

2. It worries me...

because in politics, if it can make a difference, it cannot be allowed to be in the hands of the common man.

[bemildred]

4. The internet is structurally resistant to centralization

and obstruction. Nonetheless, the worry is well founded.
The good part is that they cannot put the genie back in the
bottle without interfering with commercial uses, a nasty
Catch-22 for the ruling classes. Sort of pits them against
each other rather than the rest of us, competing for the
attention of the proles.

The internet also encourages a certain degree of literacy,
and it's more or less impossible to restrict or filter the
viewing experience from the provider end, although herculean
efforts are being made to keep people from browsing around.

[calimary]

5. What else worries me about that column - the item about the republi-CONS

aggressively doing voter registration. SHEESH. The whole sordid business worries me.

[shoopnyc123]

3. OKAY!!! Carlos is my lastest crush...

...BUT: he WAS at FOX before this, so I would sleep with him with one eye open!

[Layman]

6. An Online Political Revolution

Right before our eyes we are witnessing a breath of change in our ossified political system. Ironic that the Internet was invented by the biggest enemy of democracy, the Dept. of Defense and marketed by anti-life corporations like Micrsoft. What real effect this online revolution will ultimately have is unforeseeable. Sometimes though, it feels like we're punching out of our class. Take the Dean phenomena. $40,000,000 up in smoke. All Internet driven. Well at least we're not alone anymore. We get to stand on our cyber soapboxes
and imagine the world is listening.