Re: Does the CIA control the internet?

From: Proconsul (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/07/04 

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:52:31 -0800

Paranoia is where you find it - nowadays, it's more pandemic than AIDS......

The notion that "powerful people" want to "control distribution of
information" is arrant nonsense.....

PC

"skullcap" <news4@earthsong.null.free-online.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.03.07.20.48.30.136996@earthsong.null.free-online.co.uk...
| On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:07:21 +0000, Diogenes wrote:
|
| > skullcap wrote:
| >> The jibes about 'keep taking the pills' are just ignorant, and
| >> offensive to people with mental health problems.
| >
| > Keep taking your pills. You seem to need them.
|
| It seems to be a popular way of putting people down on the 'net (and
| elsewhere) without having to address the things they have to say, that's
| all. And i think it sucks.
|
| If powerful people don't have an inherent interest in controlling the
| distribution of information, then why do most democratic countries have
| laws trying to prevent media monopolies for exactly this reason? (the laws
| in these countries reflecting some kind of uneasy compromise between the
| interests of the powerful and the powerless). And why did the italian
| populist politician silvio berlusconi put so much effort into trying to
| undermine and find his way round these laws before making his bid for
| office?
|
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