Here's how to change the world

[Uncle Joe]

19. When you say they are monitoring what does that mean other than listening?

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker." - Frederick Douglass

By the very nature of monitoring they're forced to listen, this is more power for us.

Did they listen before when they monopolized the corporate media and a handful of monopolists were controlling the distribution and dissemination of information, of course not, they were living in a bubble.

When tens of millions of people here at home and around the world protested against the war with Iraq, did the corporate media cover it? I will save you the search the answer is no, not in any meaningful sense.

We the people on the Internet (and we're growing in number everyday while T.V is losing its' captured audience) make decisions on a daily basis, that can influence the capitalists in power, we can promote or purchase good products and shun the bad ones, we can embrace good policies and criticize inferior practices.

By debating and discussing opposing ideas we enlighten and influence each other. If you believe in the long term merits of your ideas, this is a no lose situation.

By the pooling of our ideas, thoughts, joys and frustrations, we create a higher mind, more ingenious and powerful than the richest billionaire's resources, that's why the Koch brothers are on the defensive.

Aside from all that, the Internet fosters organization for the activists and protesters.

The Information Superhighway is a virtually limitless pool of knowledge, and the mere act of reading and posting for any extended length of time fosters literacy which is another form of empowerment, that's why slave owners never wanted their slaves to have that skill.