Monday, April 16, 2012

Fact Check

The difference in the Internet and television is similar to the difference in science and religion or politics. The latter in each comparison do not like contradiction. While science and the Internet encourage it. They even provide the tools to do so. Do not like the theory or opinion you have just read? Fact check it. Conduct your own experiments. Take thirty seconds to Google it and read everything there is to know. There is hope for anyone to think logically and independently, some of the greatest thinkers throughout time have done so with as little exposure to mass-information as pre-public library days had to offer. But now the age of communication is upon us. Anyone can spend an evening online and completely revolutionize their entire belief system. By the time generation Y is in charge of the planet, a lot of bullshit will be cut out of our daily lives. We grew up on the Internet. We grew up on correcting people constantly. We are the generation of instant fact checking. Our parents might buy into mainstream news' propaganda, but we will not have it. Doubt is the most important feeling for us to act on. If the first things you are taught are the only things you ever allow to be considered for truth, you are only inviting ignorance.

The second we lose even the slightest hint of our freedom online, we are narrowing the gateway to total liberty.

Protect the Internet.

Protest any Censorship online. 


Do not just question Authority, question everything.





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