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The guy who wrote the article on CyberDemocracy (who shall remain nameless on this blog, except in citing his quote) needs to rewrite it so it doesn't suck and resubmit it for my approval. I haven't seen shitty writing like that since... well... since my last post. But there was a question he asked in the section about Cyborg Politics that made me chuckle, considering he wrote it in 1995:

"Assuming the U.S. government and the corporations do not shape the Internet entirely in their own image and that places of cyberdemocracy remain and spread to larger and larger segments of the population, what will emerge as a postmodern politics?" -Mark Poster from CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere

Funny how that is just what has been on the cusp of happening. Nameless Dude made the assumption of Net Neutrality, probably thinking it preposterous that anything else would transpire, but here we are with the possibility that cyberdemocracy may not be so democratic anymore. Lenhart and Fox's introduction to their research brought up the contention that "blogging promises a democratization of voices that can now bypass the institutional gatekeepers of mainstream media." Hehehe..... not without Net Neutrality.

Perhaps Net Neutrality rests in the hands of viral memes aimed at promoting it to the masses and more narrowly to the decision making parties. It seems to me a very democratic process at work in the online public sphere.