Why is it so hard to talk about 9/11?

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Tuesday March 21, 2006 · 12:14 AM PST

2006/03/21 · 00:14

I am one of many who has investigated the facts surrounding the tragedy that is 9/11.

There are very disturbing questions and damning evidence that establishes the motive and means for the Bush adminstration's involvemnt.

My question is simply, why is it so hard to discuss this with my family and my friends just as equally as anyone other political topic? Is it just me?

I think the problem is that by default legitimate questioning is deemed a conspiracy theory. You have to realize though, also that 18 terrorists with international financing attending flight training schools and flying planes into buildings is a conspiracy theory in itself.

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Netroots Opensource Liberation Front

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Tuesday March 07, 2006 · 2:19 AM PST

2006/03/07 · 02:19

This is example what I was trying to describe. I imagined something so close to what I read in this article I just know that someday it must be built.

I found this site, which reads:

This paper proposes the creation of an Augmented Social Network (ASN) that would build identity and trust into the architecture of the Internet, in the public interest, in order to facilitate introductions between people who share affinities or complementary capabilities across social networks. The ASN has three main objectives: 1) To create an Internet-wide system that enables more efficient and effective knowledge sharing between people across institutional, geographic, and social boundaries; 2) To establish a form of persistent online identity that supports the public commons and the values of civil society; and, 3) To enhance the ability of citizens to form relationships and self-organize around shared interests in communities of practice in order to better engage in the process of democratic governance. In effect, the ASN proposes a form of "online citizenship" for the Information Age.

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Friday March 03, 2006 · 2:20 AM PST

2006/03/03 · 02:20

...So can we, and we have to an extent.

I'm referring to an article which discusses how Iranian bloggers use the internet to unite in the face of a "media vacuum created by the forced closure of independent news outlets," which I find relevant in an age where the mass media pacifies and isolates its audience rather than informing it.

This is from the Washington Times:

The blogging phenomenon has exploded in the Islamic Republic. Today an estimated 75,000 Iranians maintain online Web logs, or "blogs," for short, that engage in a brisk virtual dialogue despite an Orwellian government that has a monopoly on public news media. They are an ever-enlarging faction of the 5 million Internet users in Iran, who have taken the protest for greater social freedom from streets and newsstands to cyberspace.

Hmm... Orwellian government, sounds like America in 5 years.

I know that during the election people were mobilized through political blogs. I just think that people are dividing amongst too many websites across this vast internet. We need to link up through a central resource.

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Central Organization of Netroots Movement

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Monday February 27, 2006 · 2:16 PM PST

2006/02/27 · 14:16

There is a vast potential out there right now. Social networking sites may have the key to vast progressive change in this country.

I found this on tribe.net..

Hands On partnered with Friendster last year, in the hopes of attracting enough volunteers for their October 15th event. In return for sponsoring the day, Friendster offered to help with publicity, showcasing the event in its news alerts, which are visible to any Bay Area members who log into the site.
According to Chivukula, about 60,000 people saw the alerts. "Even if only one percent turned out to volunteer, that would be 600 people," she says. Unfortunately, though the event was a success, "we weren't set up to track where the volunteers were coming from. It's hard to tell what the conversion rate was, from clicks on Friendster to volunteers."