Sunday, September 21, 2008
Conservatives vs Liberals: Battle Ground Internet
The power of the Internet to influence thoughts, voters, and even elections gains every year.
Both the Liberals and Conservatives have "attack websites", and partisans post videos in YouTube hosted propaganda wars.
Bloggers, like good little foot soldiers rush to man the fortifications and launch Internet attacks across the pipes of cyberspace. The bloggers group into various "armies" as well, they will rush to defend, or attack a given party or ideology. Some bloggers rely on intelligence or thoughtful arguments, and some rely on sexist or racist words to draw people towards their site.
Who will be the winner? Is there a winner? Do people other then partisans actually read political blogs? Research videos on the Internet? I don't know. But somehow I doubt it.
Anyway, vive la Internet! Its always entertaining, and always fun to watch.
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Well it seems that the attacks in blogosphere are indeed important:
breaking news
Bob Rae's Tory opponent steps 21 September 2008
Reports that Bob Rae's Tory opponent, Chris Reid has stepped down. Reid no longer appears on the Tory website as their candidate in Toronto Centre. Did a Big City Liberal blogger bring down Reid?
Some speculation that it has something to do with posts made on his blog, which has been taken down, however, a cached page remains available Here
Some people also suggest, a Big Ciy Liberal had an impact on the campaign...
http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41898&Itemid=41
I think that the internet has made a huge impact on how elections have changed. For example what i am saying right now may or may not make an impact on what happens in politics(probably a one in a million chance) but what do i know, i cant even vote. Bloggers that say rude comments directly to politicians may make a very small impact on politics.
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