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CT_Progressive Donating Member (889 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 08:42 AM
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Newest Republican Attack on the People - "The internet is bad, dont use it"
There is a hardcore Republican meme being pressed hard in this country, and that meme is this: "The internet is bad, don't use it."

They don't want people on the Internet because its the single biggest source of unbiased information in existence, and now that the Republicans control all MSM, the last thing they want is the Netroots to make all that media accumulation useless.

Again, I am telling you all point blank - the "The internet is bad" meme is a Republican ploy to get people to stop using or wanting to gain access to the internet, in an effort to control the masses.

Stop repeating this meme!!!!!!!!

Counter the message WHENEVER and WHEREVER you see it.
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 08:43 AM
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1. Oh, OK.
Edited on Thu Nov-15-07 08:45 AM by BleedingHeartPatriot
Thanks for the heads up, I guess.

BTW, if you're going to exclaim "stop repeating the meme!!!!" you might want to offer that suggestion somewhere where it's actually being repeated.

:shrug:

MKJ
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A HERETIC I AM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 08:45 AM
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2. The overwhelming majority of people who use the internet...
won't buy this line of bullshit.

People aren't THAT stupid.
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CT_Progressive Donating Member (889 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 08:46 AM
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3. Its not aimed at people who already use it. Its aimed at those that don't yet do so.
Like, parents who barely know what the internet is, old folks, etc.
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A HERETIC I AM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 08:53 AM
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6. I think if they are already parents and NOT using the internet...
this will not make much of a difference.

If a person has grown to adulthood and has kids in this day and age and has not been using the internet, they have led a pretty sheltered life, i think.
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 11:34 AM
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18. People aren't THAT stupid.
Apparently Republicans are exactly that stupid.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 08:46 AM
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4. they stand to lose a lot of money if people stopped using the Internet.
More BS from this thuggish repig party.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 08:48 AM
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5. you provide not one single example to back up your claim
that "the internet is bad" is a repuke meme. Make a claim, back it up. Didn't you make the same claim that there's a repuke meme that TV is bad?
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 09:20 AM
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11. I have seen the meme in some local churches
Seems to be more fundy based meme than republican meme from my observation. Televangelists fearful of being exposed where they don't have control of the message?
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Feron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:34 PM
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20. My observation agrees with yours.
I met a fundy Catholic in college that thought the internet was liberal (or evil).

Personally I think a lot of it comes from the negative reports you see constantly in the news. From the way the internet is portrayed, you'd think it was all porn.

I think it's more ignorance than malice. Many older people just aren't technologically savvy.

Funny enough, the fundy Catholic was forced to get an e-mail address for one of her classes.
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CT_Progressive Donating Member (889 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:49 PM
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22. The Internet is for Porn !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo

:rofl:
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EV_Ares Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 08:55 AM
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7. Where are they saying this? I have seen where the government
basically is trying to get more control through those such as AT&T but I have not seen where they say don't use the internet.
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 08:58 AM
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8. It is starting. Be aware that they took over the media and the only thing between them
and a total coup of America is the internet
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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 09:10 AM
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9. Once again, the greatest enemy of the republicans is..........
The Truth.
Hurry, someone turn off the lights.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 09:20 AM
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10. They fear the New Media, they fear the Netroots. They fear online social networking.
Edited on Thu Nov-15-07 09:21 AM by Odin2005
My generation is using social networking sites like Facebook to reversing the trend towards social atomization via technology, and the Corporatists need the psychological effects of social atomization because it encourages "I've got mine, fuck you" thinking according to a book I've read called Dark Ages America.

The Corporatists fear the New Media because it gives an easily accessible alternative to the BS on the MSM.

Establishment politicians fear the Netroots because participatory democracy is a threat to the Establishment. That's why Hillary's campaign lackeys insulted Obama supporters by dismissing us as "18 year old Facebook users that don't vote."
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pearl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 09:51 AM
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12. For awhile I thought the establishment Media
And of course the politicians feared and hated the net because they failed to understand it.
Now that they understand it (to some degree) they are terrified, including the has been pundits on cable. Because the power of that top down world is draining as we speak.
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stirlingsliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 09:53 AM
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13. I Haven't Heard This At All.
I must hang out at all the correct places.

I haven't heard this meme at all.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 10:09 AM
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14. There is a fear of the Internet meme out there, and it is a reasonable one
in my experience, directed at controlling content access for young people and security concerns about online purchases and banking. This is not new. What is newer is an effort to control access to specific domains. For example, the Utah Educational Network blocks domains as do some providers of Internet access. One example, an educators domain providing evidence of election irregularities in Ohio.

A greater concern should be who decides which domains to blacklist. A lot of parents are purchasing software to control which sites students cannot access. Can they trust the corporations providing the blacklists? NO!
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 10:10 AM
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15. The atheist Sam Harris blames the internet for promoting worldwide jihad
Edited on Thu Nov-15-07 10:10 AM by fishnfla
so, whatever
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 10:14 AM
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16. My new meme.
Edited on Thu Nov-15-07 10:15 AM by Iggo
Stop using the word "meme." It's bad. Don't use it. And don't worry your pretty little heads about why we don't want you to use it. It's just bad, okay?

(I don't yet know how to put the sarcasm thingy in my posts, but rest assured that if I did, it'd be right about....here.)

EDIT: No wait....here.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 10:58 AM
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17. Just reiterated on the House floor FISA debate. Jihadists use the Internet.
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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 12:50 PM
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19. There are moves like ...
Warner blasts Pentagon Internet move

Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) said today he will investigate the Pentagon’s decision to cut off troop access to MySpace, YouTube and more than a dozen other websites.


Before this move by the Pentagon, a few years ago, there was a quizzical news announcement where a General officer announced from the steps of the Pentagon that he was removing public Internet access of ALL military web content. In the MSM, there was silence for a day or two, then, a large IT defense contractor recanted the General's comments without explaining them.

Besides, there is Internet2.
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:48 PM
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21. when folks say that, I have a reply
"The Internet is really cool. Where else could I listen to radio programs from around the world and read newspapers from other countries? And there are lots of really good research sites there, if I find out about know something. I teach piano and I find lots of free sheet music for my students online.

I don't and won't own a TV, so they will pry the cable modem from my cold, dead fingers."

Usually leaves them standing there with their mouth agape...

:evilgrin:
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:54 PM
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23. No. I want these stupid assholes to stay the fuck off the internet.
We already have too many stupid people online now.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:57 PM
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24. Where did you
hear or see this? Not, that I'm doubting..it's like it had to happen. They have nothing so they don't want people to be exposed to facts.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 02:17 PM
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25. The internet is like a great big plug in the memory hole.
The GOP needs the memory hole so they can lie and spin as needed without any inconvenient facts coming back to haunt them.
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