Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Are bloggers internet terrorists?

I think a good frame of reference for this question is propaganda during WWII. When information was more heavily regulated, it was easier for Hitler to control his message. Blogging provides an easy medium for people to disseminate information, good bad or otherwise. 

The important distinction, here is that propoganda took advantage of the fact that people had no access to other sources of information with which they could verify or discredit what they heard. Today, we have unlimited access to good information and it is our responsibility to verify what we read in a blog. 

Bloggers are only internet terrorists if people let them be. That is, bloggers only harm those who are willing to put faith in the information they hear from a less than credible source.