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  •  It's About Time People Started Talking Amendments (3+ / 0-)

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    eugene, Dump Terry McAuliffe, polecat

    About damned time.

    The most serious problem we face however, which at least partly underlies all of these, is the lack of an "information commons" supporting free discourse and the free distribution of information to and among the people.

    The 1st Amendment's "speech" and "press" accomplished that in the framers' epoch, but the world no longer operates according to their conceptions, and it's full of new systems and powers they never imagines. So "our" rights now protect the society's owners against we-the-people.

    I don't have an amendment or revision to suggest.

    I think it's a much bigger challenge than the other issues we face because most of us are so thoroughly integrated with the framers' original solution.

    For my money, we need to collectively step back from their approach and think about the problem of information in general enough terms that could us to a solution that accomplishes in our time what theirs did in theirs.

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    This calls for immediate discussion!

    We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy.... --ML King "Beyond Vietnam"

    by Gooserock on Mon Aug 20, 2007 at 09:30:46 AM PDT

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