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Saturday, December 22, 2007

What a shame about the influence and frustration of some bloggers

Now it has become political and even censorship by the “owners” of some internet blog sites. In turn, obviously some sincere writers of their opinions have gone beyond the old time standards of convincing arguments to “stuffing the ballot box”, internet style. All this is un-American since ideas should win out over ballot box stuffing, sincere belief in knowing “the truth”, or even egos.

The obvious question is one of how to deal with this “current trend”. Many choose to vote with their feet, and leave the discussion, not out of surrender or poor ideas, but mostly just out of common sense and respect. Practically speaking, if any author wants to try influence their fellow Americans by organizing their “votes” they are welcome to do so. In the same vein, if some other fellow Americans want to censor and restrict this abuse of democracy and internet free play, they are demonstrating old fashioned fascism, who many think we defeated decades ago as an idea. There is a third way, and pretty normal. It is called let people vote with their feet, recently using the internet, to show what they think about “current trends” going on at the RCP site, again as an example. In this things will sort out for the best.

And the best is our country’s future. Now that is something we can talk about. And there are many many who have good ideas, and are willing to express them. On this many wake up looking forward to the new day. The only people in charge of America are Americans.

1 comment:

Faultline USA said...

Excellent assessment of the RCP dilemma. I was shocked to learn that RCP thinks that some of our fellow bloggers may have stuffed the ballot box by using different e-mail addresses. I had assumed that RCP had the technology in place to prevent that from happening if the ISP was the same. At any rate, RCP showed rather poor judgment by not contacting the suspected offenders first. Hopefully all will settle down and the innocent bloggers will be quickly reinstated.