NYTimes: How the Internet Threatens Democracy

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: March 2, 2017 at 12:25:04 PM EST
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] NYTimes: How the Internet Threatens Democracy
>
>
> NYTimes: How the Internet Threatens Democracy
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/opinion/how-the-internet-threatens-democracy.html
>
>      Even though in one sense President Trump's victory in 2016
>    fulfilled conventional expectations -- because it prevented a
>    third straight Democratic term in the White House -- it also
>    revealed that the internet and its offspring have overridden
>    the traditional American political system of alternating
>    left-right advantage. They are contributing -- perhaps
>    irreversibly -- to the decay of traditional moral and ethical
>    constraints in American politics.
>
> - - -
>
> We built the Internet. We can fix it. We need not feel obligated to
> host the speech of hatemongers, racists, liars, and propagandists --
> nor permit our ad platforms to enrich them. The first amendment only
> applies to government actions related to speech. Time to toss the
> racists and fascists off of our platforms -- they can go build their
> own with their own money. Good riddance.
>
> --Lauren--



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