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Is the Mainstream Media a Threat to Freedom and Sanity?

Academy of Ideas

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Will the Internet End the Monopoly of the Mass Media?

Mass media is a translation into actuality of plato's celebrated figure of the cave. The internet olution is ending the monopoly the mass media has on the flow of information. Ideas that would never have been permitted in the controlled paradime of the mass media are being spread by the emancipation of authorship. But as this free flow of information is threatening to the parasitic life style of many who occupy positions of power, we should expect increased calls for censorship.

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