Actually technically speaking (It's my last refuge), the inmates always run these asylums, but it's OUR asylum and anyway who made anyone boss?
It's about manufacturing consent. (Convolutedly)
Nobody is paying us to post. Pay me to post and I will say anything you want, be you DAK or BJ or whomever.
Ye canna manufacture opinion. You canna keep it interesting if you make it boring.
I don't know what the limits would be or who would make them. All I know is that it was no fun to post your own handbills in Stalin's Russia.
I used to "love" the old usenet when pretentious, silly, stultified, anal thread monitors would come on to posters and tell them what they could say and not say on misc.invest misc.canada.invest and say things like "The Internet is not a democracy" etc etc.. What a bunch of goons. Either the Internet suffers the tragedy of the commons or it doesn't. It is self limiting. Advertising on it does not pay, so you can ignore spam.
These posting threads are as good as it gets. This is true gonzo people's journalism. As long as they remain free they are good. No matter what is said, it can be said. We will see pontificators, pedants, windbags, paranoiacs, deviants and agendas. You may read, complain, hold forth or keep your counsel. At least people read us and occasionally we can say what will never get in the national news because what they say is 6 months out of date, propaganda, pusillanimous and paid for by people with vested interests.
I would defend to the death DAK's right to say his piece. Occasionally if he should interfere with mine I would like to hunt him down and kill him. On the other hand that is a lot of effort and I don't think it will ever come to pass.
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