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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (315739)7/20/2009 4:48:39 PM
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In "On Rumors," Sunstein reviews how views get cemented in one camp even when people are presented with persuasive evidence to the contrary. He worries that we are headed for a future in which "people's beliefs are a product of social networks working as echo chambers in which false rumors spread like wildfire." That future, though, is already here, according to Sunstein. "We hardly need to imagine a world, however, in which people and institutions are being harmed by the rapid spread of damaging falsehoods via the Internet," he writes. "We live in that world. What might be done to reduce the harm?"

Well, let's see. Here are my suggestions:

1. Reduce the liberal stranglehold on education. Enforce the 1st Amendment on campus for a change.

2. Enforce the 1st Amendment in the media and protect those whose ideas are not shared by every other talking head.

3. Enforce the 1st Amendment in government workplaces and protect the whistleblowers.

4. Get rid of people like Sunstein for whom *fixing* a "problem" like this actually means curtailing free speech and running re-education camps.

5. Vote out Obama and the rest of the radical left who are hellbent on controlling every aspect of our lives including
our very thoughts.
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