[rlmorel]

I agree completely.

I understand the media of the Internet is a double-edged sword, but I will take the risk of figuring out how to grasp that double edged sword by the blade and using it as I see fit, rather than having someone wield a safe sword handle on my behalf and putting my trust in them.

They betrayed my trust long, long ago, beginning with Joseph McCarthy, filling in the middle with Walter Cronkite commenting on The Tet Offensive and culminating with the Bush Presidency and the War in Iraq.

[abb]

I understand the media of the Internet is a double-edged sword, but I will take the risk of figuring out how to grasp that double edged sword by the blade and using it as I see fit, rather than having someone wield a safe sword handle on my behalf and putting my trust in them.

Well put. The internet - again, imo - represents freedom to a degree greater than any since the dawn of mankind. The free flow of information is the antidote to control.