Subject: Re: President Clinton's Commencement Speech at MIT
Chris Savage (csavage@crblaw.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:29:00 -0500
Message-Id: <BD058035810E66D1@colegate.crblaw.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:29:00 -0500 From: Chris Savage <csavage@crblaw.com> To: roundtable@cni.org Subject: Re: President Clinton's Commencement Speech at MIT
Vigdor Schreibman <fins@access.digex.net> states:
>
> Its the antidemocratic structure of our economic and political system,
> which locks the citizens out of any meaningful role in governance and
> assures corrupt government and big business. This corrupt structure
> must be radically transformed to fulfill the promise of democracy and
> achieve sustainability.
Without commenting on whether the particular suggestions in the APT
petition will work (I have my doubts, to put it mildly), isn't one of
the good things about the 'net that ordinary citizens can communicate
(and organize, if they want to) unencumbered by normal
media/propaganda/whatever? Of course, that means the KKK, the Branch
Davidians, and the Republicans along with others of different
philosophical and political bents.
If your broader point is that technology and its dispersal to the masses
is irrelevant to the "real" problems, I guess I would respectfully
disagree. Broad availability of access to information and
communications seems to me inevitably to make a difference in politics
and culture. Owning a radio station or a newspaper becomes less
important. The balance of power shifts away from the big guys towards
the little guys.
Or am I missing something?
Chris
Chris Savage
<csavage@crblaw.com>
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