I've been meaning to write this post for weeks as I've been following the middle east revolutions. It is remarkable to think about how information disseminated in a one to many fashion can change the world. Newspapers, town posts and other previous one to many communication vehicles were controlled by few privileged people. Today, anyone can publish a message to thousands, even millions of people.
The value of this capability became apparent in the past couple weeks. Freedom of speech isn't important because we need to hear from the fringes of society. Freedom of speech is critical because we might all be thinking the same thing. Recognizing that fact, is revolutionary.
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