Just An Observation

 "If they saying they have to control the internet because people can be 'radicalized'.....are they admitting people can be brainwashed?"

-- Uncle Hotep (Twitter)

I sat for a good ten minutes pondering the simplicity of this guy's analysis.

No one ever in the history of newspapers....ever said they needed to be controlled, because people could be brainwashed by reading print-text.

This suggestion is a recent thing....where folks are worried that you might view 'content' X or Y.....then go radical (never saying left radical or right radical).

My problem?  What if the worry-people who want to control the internet....already have been brainwashed?

Can they establish that they are 'pure' and non-radicalized?  No, I'm not talking about some Harvard PhD guy 'blessing' them....I'm talking about an exam where we the public can gauge the guy 'neutral'.

The odd thing?  These control folks are the same things all hyped up to bring high-speed internet to across America....which would send brainwashing worry to the maximum degree.   

I worked with a guy around a decade ago, who had his aunt 'move-in' and over a six-month period....she got attached to C-SP*N for about ten hours a day.  Once he got home.....the aunt would want to chat constantly over political stuff, and he offered up the opinion one day....she'd become radicalized.  I asked how he'd resolve this, and he offered the idea of just dumping his four-star cable package for a marginalized deal.  

It is kinda funny, between cable-TV and the internet....we've got tons of disinformation and propaganda dumped on us daily, and our previous ability to filter out garbage....is simply overwhelmed.