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Matt Drudge = Democracy

 Robert Stacy McCain, last seen collaborating with Al Gore in Queen Elizabeth's world-domination conspiracy, scores a long and wide-ranging interview with Andrew Breitbart. He's one of the Drudge Report's behind-the-scenes editors, he runs his own no-frills news feed, and his thoughts on how free media affect free minds are worth reading:
It seems that there's been, across the board, a democratizing of everything. It seems that the American spirit of freedom is being exported. In a MacLuhanesque way, the medium is the message. The freedoms that we see online in this country -- there's no taxation of it -- all these things have all benefitted from the growth of the Internet.

It's very difficult to sell to totalitarianism in the Internet age. Do you want a free Internet? Do you want absolute control of your Internet life, or do you want to put that in the control of others? And I think that if people were to start taking away your freedoms online, you'd see a bloody revolution.
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Comments to "Matt Drudge = Democracy":

Robert Stacy McCain | May 30, 2007, 1:55pm | #

Apparently a comment boycott is underway, Dave -- the commenters are voting with their feet, you might say. Either that, or the onset of Fred! fever has drained away the psychic energy of Reasonoids.

Eric the .5b | May 30, 2007, 2:05pm | #

"Comment boycott"? David writes some of the most-commented-on posts here.