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Echo-o-o- chamber-r-r-r

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Echo-o-o- chamber-r-r-r
: One issue at this Emergent Democracy conference is the echo chamber — not the echo chamber of the Dean blog but the echo chamber of the conference. The stage is, a bit too appropriately, set to the left. Almost all the speakers are of the left; MoveOn is up there now. Esther Dyson raised the issue at lunch; another questioner did on the floor. They said they tried hard to get speakers from the right. It certainly would have made for a meatier conference and would have given a better picture of how these camps view and use these tools. Too damned bad.

Matt Welch in the comments below says Richard Bennett should be here. That would have been a start. I don’t want to just hear like-minded people. And for that matter, I don’t want to hear just Americans. This is a worldwide political phenomenon being used by different people in different ways.

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    Tom Grey

    Isn’t it also possible that most of the very tech-savy and politically idealistic folk, are also Leftist? Perhaps romantically idealistic; perhaps thinking the rhetoric of “helping the poor” is more important than reality; perhaps liking the CONTROL implicit in big gov’t Left policies?

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    Richard Bennett? Dear God. If you’re looking to suck civility out of Etech, Let’s go the whole hog and invite Ann Coulter. Or Charles Johnson.