Control Of The Dissemination Of Information (or Misinformation) Is One Of The Principal Sources Of Political Power.

Control Of The Dissemination Of Information (or Misinformation) Is One Of The Principal Sources Of Political Power.

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Control of the dissemination of information (or misinformation) is
one of the principal sources of political power. Political power is
what the discussion of the Internet is really about, not home-made
bombs or pornography.
-- Michael Goldsby
-- Letter to Communications of the ACM, Nov 95

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Political Power attracts the corruptable.
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The CDA made it a federal crime in the USA to send a communication which is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent, with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person....
A cult is a religion with no political power. -- Tom Wolfe
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
-- Aldous Huxley...
Just follow the money in a political campaign and you'll follow the power.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
-- Mao Zedong, "Quotations from Chairman Mao", 1966...
When you control a man's information sources, you control his mind.
In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge. -- J.G.C. Minchi
Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
' -- Mao Tse-tung, 1938, inadvertently endorsing the Second Amendment....