Why the web benefits Liberals.

[alfredo]

It comes down to our more open and democratic mindset.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/05/31/liberals.conservatives.online/index.html?hpt=C2

The Huffington Post's closest conservative competitor, Hotair.com, has only a fraction of its audience size and is tightly controlled by an inner circle of three authors.

A leading right-wing blog, Hot Air was founded by Michelle Malkin, an author who is known for her support of wartime loyalty oaths and racial profiling as a defense against terrorism. In criticizing Obama's 2009 address to the United Nations, she said, "he solidified his place in the international view as the great appeaser and the groveler in chief."

Indeed, Malkin's hard-line national security views are matched by Hotair's unusually restrictive comment policy. The site permits comments only by registered users; currently, registration is closed to any new users. The site states, "We may allow as much or as little opportunity for registration as we choose, in our absolute discretion, and we may close particular comment threads or discontinue our general policy of allowing comments at any time."

By contrast, the left-leaning Huffington Post, the most visited blog on the Internet, has thousands of bloggers and invites active users to become featured authors and comment facilitators

[Scuba]

1. Explains why the big corps want to 'regulate' it...

...just imagine if Rupert gets control and decides traffic to/from DU should run at 300 baud (remember 300 baud?).

[Echo In Light]

2. Yep

[alfredo]

3. Corporations are dictatorships, they hate disorder.

[derby378]

4. I cut my teeth on 300 baud

I thought it was such hot stuff to score a Hayes 9600-baud SmartModem at a sidewalk computer sale at 3 in the morning for only $100. That was around 22 years ago, and at the time, the Hayes rocked.

[Scuba]

12. Anyone who....

remembers the 300 baud modem and uses expressions like "cut my teeth" must be almost as old as I.

[jp11]

5. To shape a message you need to control it.

[alfredo]

6. But is it the message the people want, or the message from "Dear Leader"?

[jp11]

10. Dear Leader so long as he/she/it is their team.

[alfredo]

11. Being on our team doesn't always translate into loyalty.

[FLAprogressive]

7. I've noticed that the internet is dominated by loudmouth "libertarians" and conservatives

Every political video on youtube has RON PAUL 2012 on it....

[Scuba]

13. Keep looking. And by the way...

... many of those Rand Paul videos are parodys.

[Lorien]

15. But if you look at the ratings on political YouTube videos they always skew

liberal/ left. The Right is and always has been a very loud MINORITY. They post frequently, they post a lot of vicious, hateful stuff, but they are still outnumbered. No wonder they want their own YouTube and Wikipedia!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. What we see here are the echoes of the Hacker Ethic. Read this book:

http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/other-books/hackers

Its history stops just before the Internet went mainstream, but you'll find its lessons relevant even so.

[Captain Hilts]

9. Huff Post is out of control. Too many bad 'columnists' there. nt

[alfredo]

17. We are more tolerant to out of control situations. A messy room isn't a good

reason to beat our spouse or kids.

[lumberjack_jeff]

14. Must... resist... obvious... n/t

[blogslut]

16. B-b-but Americans are Speaking Ouuuut!!!!!1!

:hi:

[jp11]

20. And the Americans are we, except if the GOP don't like your ideas then it never happened.

[Tutankhamun]

18. It's going to be interesting to see what strategy the MSM/corporatocracy uses to

turn the teabaggers against net neutrality.

"Stopp them internets rite now!"

"Speek out agenst freee speach!"

[alfredo]

19. They'll lie to them and the teabaggers will dutifully follow.