Sender: "Steve Eppley" <•••@••.•••> Mark Stahlman opined: [snip] >The inevitable result of hyper-democracy would be manipulation of >opinions by skilled opinion shapers to support their particular >collective judgements. [snip] Is this from the same Mark Stahlman who wrote: -------------------- 8/18/95 >The essential character of New Media is anti-propaganda. Contrast the TIME >approach to to cyber-porn and the WELL approach. TIME is a propaganda >organ; the WELL is an anti-propaganda community. ... >Two-way (the only truly New) media provides the antidote. Talk back. 9/1/95 >Focus on the anti-propaganda capacity of the Net. 9/13/95 >You know the cool thing about the Net is that you only get away with sh*t >when no one really cares what you're saying. --------------------- ---Steve (Steve Eppley •••@••.•••) ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram - •••@••.••• - Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) You are encouraged to forward and cross-post messages for non-commercial use, pursuant to any redistribution restrictions included in individual messages. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
