POWER (was:FNV-RIAA IS CRACKING DOWN)

["Thomas W¿hni" <hovard@online.no>]

Bill wrote:
 The Black Panthers used to say that "all power comes from the barrel of a
gun"... these days it more like "all power comes out of the fattest 
wallet". 


I`ve been thinking about something along those lines. If informaton and 
exchange of ideas is all that it`s cracked up to be then the Internet is 
the most important arena for power.
And to that effect , people who gets the most hits on their pages are 
potentially more
powerful than anybody , if they only wrote about stuff other than xxx and 
"these are my hobbies".  Right so far?

So , who distributes power , then , if not the people who arganize and 
govern the search-engines??  I realised that for the last year or so I`ve 
been searching through YAHOO 95% of the time. I just didn`t realize that 
you have to contact these search engines yourself  in order to be put in 
their registers , so I thought that all search-engines were the same(!).  

Since the net is so young I think there are a lot of people like me , not 
conscious about how they use it.  Am I beeing paranoid or is the internet 
a much greater force than anyone can imagine? That its replacing TV as a 
forum for ideas and thoughts? I`m not counting books and newspapers 
because they aren`t open for EVERYONE , they have to sell.

Yours , Thomas





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