Comments on: 2010: The Cyberspace Strategy http://filipinovoices.com/2010-the-cyberspace-strategy Powered By A Collective Voice Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: The Jester-in-Exile http://filipinovoices.com/2010-the-cyberspace-strategy/comment-page-1#comment-629 The Jester-in-Exile Sun, 18 May 2008 10:04:18 +0000 http://www.filipinovoices.com/?p=149#comment-629 on the spirit of your argument, mabini, i've this take: technology is neutral. how people use it will be up to them. think of atomic energy -- one could either turn it into a source of useful power or a horrifying weapon of mass destruction. same thing with blogging and cyberspace. the milieu could be used to start useful debate and discussion or to spread orwellian propaganda. that said, i'm glad that bloggers by and large have decided to go the route of critical thinking, ahead of spinmeisters. better SERPS and SEO for those who've gone first, and it'll take time before the local political operators can swamp the local political niche of the blogosphere. on the spirit of your argument, mabini, i’ve this take: technology is neutral. how people use it will be up to them.

think of atomic energy — one could either turn it into a source of useful power or a horrifying weapon of mass destruction.

same thing with blogging and cyberspace. the milieu could be used to start useful debate and discussion or to spread orwellian propaganda.

that said, i’m glad that bloggers by and large have decided to go the route of critical thinking, ahead of spinmeisters. better SERPS and SEO for those who’ve gone first, and it’ll take time before the local political operators can swamp the local political niche of the blogosphere.

]]> By: mabini http://filipinovoices.com/2010-the-cyberspace-strategy/comment-page-1#comment-598 mabini Sat, 17 May 2008 02:06:13 +0000 http://www.filipinovoices.com/?p=149#comment-598 Jester, that's a good idea for media consultants and promoters of politicians running for national posts. They might bite your idea as it will be another money venture and capturing votes of Filipino voters come 2010 national elections. But i have high regard of the bloggers and internet users in our country. The possible problem here would be the volume of garbage and lies that the politicial promoters to promote their candidates-clients would throw in the internet media. We should be wary and critical of this situation to happen; otherwise we are throwing our voters to these opportunistic politicos and trapos - a bleak future for our country. As experienced bloggers and like you as responsible writers, we should a proactive role of making sure that garbage thrown in the internet by the politicos are immediately incinerated or shall boomerang to them. We need to set up a lighthouse and guard house here when they throw such stuff. The key role that shall be played by the internet should be to further educate and enlighten all the Filipino voters and non-voters to build our country from the rubbles of so many crisis perpetuated by never ending corruption, incompetence and lies. ...even it will take a number of years to reach such goal - betterment for all Filipinos -- lets go for it. Jester, that’s a good idea for media consultants and promoters of politicians running for national posts. They might bite your idea as it will be another money venture and capturing votes of Filipino voters come 2010 national elections.

But i have high regard of the bloggers and internet users in our country.

The possible problem here would be the volume of garbage and lies that the politicial promoters to promote their candidates-clients would throw in the internet media. We should be wary and critical of this situation to happen; otherwise we are throwing our voters to these opportunistic politicos and trapos – a bleak future for our country.

As experienced bloggers and like you as responsible writers, we should a proactive role of making sure that garbage thrown in the internet by the politicos are immediately incinerated or shall boomerang to them. We need to set up a lighthouse and guard house here when they throw such stuff. The key role that shall be played by the internet should be to further educate and enlighten all the Filipino voters and non-voters to build our country from the rubbles of so many crisis perpetuated by never ending corruption, incompetence and lies. …even it will take a number of years to reach such goal – betterment for all Filipinos — lets go for it.

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