A challenge to Skinner, Elad, et al.

[Ugnmoose]

I think is now abundantly clear that the Internet is the only true medium left that is not sanitized and can spread the real story of what the hell is going on this country to the blissfully ignorant sheeple. Each of us activists needs to be apostles of truth, spreading the word, like the gospel, to everyone we know outside of the Internet world. (yes there are many among us who still don't use this marvelous medium to get their news and information)

To do so, we need to have a unified effort. We need to have Skinner, et al. and all the other major webmasters and bloggers convene a summit meeting to map a strategy that will foster this effort. We must all speak in unity, with one clear message. That message must be: We will fight to the death to preserve our freedom and democracy and we will take back our government so that it is once again of the people, by the people and for the people. In unity there is strength. Divided we are roadkill. The reason the evil doers succeed is that they practice divide and conquer. And sadly it has worked. We are more polarized than ever, because they control the flow of information we receive. We must counteract this and the only weapon we have is the blessed Net.

And so, I offer this challenge. Please help me in moving this idea forward so that it can get the traction it needs. If you belong to other sites or are webmasters and bloggers yourself. Help spread the word.

[asthmaticeog]

1. "et al" actually goes by "EarlG" nowadays. n/t

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

2. The Only Problem Is I'm Not Sure What It Is You Are Actually Proposing.

What do you want the outcome to be, or what do you want them to actually do? I want to read your intent better, there can be some good there but I'm not really sure what you mean.

[Ugnmoose]

4. A summit meeting

Let them come together to form a unified strategy to marshal the power of the 2 million or so Internet activists.

[ladjf]

3. I think it would be a bad mistake for the webmasters to move

toward a centralized strategy. The power and beauty of blog sites is it's diversification and freedom. Let the truth flow as it will.

[Ugnmoose]

5. Wrong, wrong, wrong

Diversity is fine for discussing ideas and opinions and for idle chatter. We need action. We need to unify our efforts. That is the problem with liberals. We all want to stand around and debate issues. Well I say, the time for debate is over. We need to unify behind one frikkin effort. And that is how best to take back our government. Everything else pales by comparison. If we don't get control of this soon, we may not be around as such to do anything about it later.

[mikelewis]

6. Just so happens, they're way ahead of you...

The Activist Headquarters
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=106

[mandyky]

7. First of all, any summits could be virtual

and quite frequent, ala netmeeting or IRC.

Honestly, I don't see it as the Skinner's and DKOS' of the world duty to encourage people to pass information around offline. What we need to do is to create news organizations in each major city, sort of create our own mini newspapers, print summaries of articles found online along with URL, maybe weekly. That and create squads of letter to the editor writers to regular newspapers.

[serryjw]

8. I'm afraid it's too late!

I KNEW in early 2002 that this was going to happen. I posted on Dems.com many times and was told that technologically it was not possible to have INTRANETS. Unfortunately, I knew differently. They will never let us continue the way we are going. WAY too much FREEDOM!The moment Corporate America has controll over the 'pipes' we are doomed

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The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.

Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now being circulated in the cable, telephone and telecommunications industries, those with the deepest pockets--corporations, special-interest groups and major advertisers--would get preferred treatment. Content from these providers would have first priority on our computer and television screens, while information seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, could be relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out.

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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester