Writing on DU is activism, actually

[Uncle Joe]

111. The second sentence of your first paragraph partly makes my point

Activism doesn't happen here. Nothing wrong with thinking of this as a good home base when you need information or need a boost of enthusiasm. But activism doesn't happen inside here. You have to go outside the clubhouse to be an activist.

But it's more than just getting information or enthusiasm, it's the spreading of ideas and debating them, that's the crux.

The Founders believed in the power of debate, no doubt that's why the 1st Amendment is the 1st Amendment.

Now if one wants to live in a bubble, just get your news and information from the corporate media; where debate is heavily skewed toward one side or non-existent.

Influence is power, no one knows that better than the corporate media and that's why they're attacking the Internet ie: by trying to kill Net Neutrality, they want turn the Web in to cable television.

The corporate media knows the Internet is a powerful contending counter to their corporate supremacist propaganda, they also know our power and influence is growing virtually every day as more people log on and come up through school familiar with the Net from when they were just a child.

Propaganda is power and countering it is activism.