Saturday, January 1, 2011

Internet Bashing


Everyone agrees that despite the many short comings of the Internet, there are many or plenty of things that you can do online. Among the things that are counted as good is e-voting where you don't need to queue uup in a polling booth to exercise your democratic rights. You get the vote even if it's raining, democracy wins and everyone are happy.

     Except for a former polish prime minister. Jaroslaw kaczynski apparently thinks that the internet is satan's workshop and people should not be allowed to vote online. In fact he seemed to be worried about the youth population and felt that the pre-dominance of porn, along with beer would cloud their judgement and they would mistakenly hit the wrong button. He thought that manipulating people online is easier than, say, in a public meeting where you run the risk of getting rotten things thrown at your face.

 Ironically these remarks were published not in a news paper or in a TV show but in a web page. Besides it's not that Kaczynski, was a technophobe. In December 2008, he had set up a video blog so that he could connect with the people. So what could be made of the latest bout of Internet Bashing? Maybe, like other politicans he was just playing to the gallery, which in this case consist of a cult which had sworn off the Internet and whose votes he is coveting. Crazier things have happened in politics.



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