Sunday, November 27, 2011

your government can't be trusted

This week’s discussion was about information access who has it and who doesn’t.  Julie was talking in class about Bill Gates and his vision of a future where everyone no matter who you are or where you are will have access to the internet.  This is a great vision for someone like me who strongly advocates the rights of everyone to educate him or herself.  On the other hand his vision is that this access will be provided by the government.  As an ex-activist who is still a conspiracy theorist and would probably still participate in activism if she were located somewhere that was not so far out of touch with the real world I have to say that the possibility of the government in any country having control over access to information scares the SHIT out of me.  It is near impossible for a person living a daily life to be neutral when spreading information.  Even our news sources can’t accomplish that feat.  Can you imagine what would happen if the people who have the strongest motivation for information to be swayed towards their way of thinking had control over access to it?  I am horrified by that possibility.  

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