The Village Square

The Village Square says Mike Huckabee nails the internet: Part 2

November 21st, 2009

Mike Huckabee on the sticky wicket of the internet (You can watch this HERE, click on Chapter 10 to get right to this excerpt):

“The internet has exacerbated [the problem of incivility in our political dialog]. It is a wonderful tool and I’m glad we have it but it’s still in its infancy and like an infant and to be blunt and graphic it’s pooping all over the place right now. I can say anything I want on the internet with no accountability at all. Zero… It’s cheap shots, shots from the trees. It’s sad. That has really to me diminished the civility of our culture because people will just say things that are cruel and vicious and why not? One of the things we have to teach young people: When most of us grew up our news came from sources that had editors… who asked: “Who’s your source? How many people can you verify this with? What is the veracity of this information?”… There is no editor on the internet. Every consumer is his or her own editor and so the end user has to also become the middle man and do the editing themselves and frankly most people are not doing the editing. That’s sad.”

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