Technology: Fueling Hatred and Misunderstanding

Red Leader. writes "This Thomas Friedman op-ed entitled "Global Village Idiocy" and this article by George Packer, entitled "When Here Sees There," both touch on some interesting observations regarding technology's impact on tolerance and understanding. My favourite quote from Friedman's piece is "the Internet, at its ugliest, is just an open sewer: an electronic conduit for untreated, unfiltered information."" We've previously posted the Packer piece, but combined with other story, I think it's worth a retread.

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The real cost of political correctness

[redelm]

OK, so some people around the World don't much like the ideas of some
other people. I can see that Bill O'Rielly might upset some people.
But they should understand that some others really do feel like that.
If this journalist thinks the USA is represented by the NYT, then
she's seriously misleading herself.

The world may not be as nice
a place as political correctness would have you believe. But then,
it is not. Get over it, and work at overcoming differences if thats
your thing. Nothing
worse than not addressing something that could be addressed because
you think it doesn't need to be. Wasted opportunity.

If nothing
else, information helps you know your opponent. This is always a
good thing. So is a critical mind, unnumbed by state-controlled
or editorially sanitized press.