Jon, the internet is media (Score 1)

As you have pointed out numerous times in the past, the internet is a form of media. By the very nature of media, things are filtered. When you watch the news, you don't hear about the little boy who skinned his knee while riding his bike. I, personally, think you are sitting in an ivory tower, taking an idealistic approach to censorship, with delusions of a Farenheit 451-esque government stupifying the people by way of media. Not to be insulting, but I truly don't understand you. One moment you talk about the "paradigm shift" that is taking place in and on the internet, and then the next you act like the last of the old guard who must protect the status quo. If I don't like upside.com, then I don't visit upside.com. Stop thinking of the internet as this utopian paradise where ideas flow like water, because it is not and never was. Instead, think of each individual as a "website," if you like. If you don't like a website, you don't visit it. The result is that you have no idea what that website had to say. The same rules apply to individuals. Perhaps the reason some readers block you is not because they rabidly disagree with your opinions, but because they find nothing useful in what you say. It's true that you stimulate some interesting debates, but all you are really giving is opinions, and just YOUR opinions, and at least in my eyes you have not yet gained the credibility to make me put special emphasis on your opinions. Why see a jonkatz opinion prominently featured as a headline when it belongs in the forum, like everyone else's opinion?

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