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Author:		Raymond Yee
Posted:		5/12/2002; 6:45:48 PM
Topic:		Thomas Friedman: Global Village Idiocy (NYT)
Msg #:		444 (top msg in thread)
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Thomas Friedman: Global Village Idiocy (NYT) #

"At its best, the Internet can educate more people faster than any media tool we've ever had. At its worst, it can make people dumber faster than any media tool we've ever had. The lie that 4,000 Jews were warned not to go into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 was spread entirely over the Internet and is now thoroughly believed in the Muslim world. Because the Internet has an aura of "technology" surrounding it, the uneducated believe information from it even more. They don't realize that the Internet, at its ugliest, is just an open sewer: an electronic conduit for untreated, unfiltered information."

Posted by Raymond Yee on 5/12/02; 6:45:51 PM
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