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If I write a book and publish it, am I not propagating the ideas written on it? I still require readers to go online or to a bookshop and purchase my book, then
by cassianoleal 5y ago
If I write a book and publish it, am I not propagating the ideas written on it? I still require readers to go online or to a bookshop and purchase my book, then read it. Once they do, the information has propagated to them. If someone explicitly asks them about the book and gets a good explanation, my ideas propagate further.
In the case of DNS, the information does emanate from the upstream server, but only upon request, like the ideas in the book.
- robertlagrant 5y ago> am I not propagating the ideas written on it I don't think anyone would phrase it that way, no. "Propaganda" generally involves things like mass leaflet drops, messages blasted out of public address systems, that sort of thing.
- cassianoleal 5y agoWho said anything about propaganda? Not all ideas are classified that way, and I was talking about writing a book, not dropping leaflets.
- robertlagrant 5y agoIndeed. But the reason propaganda is called such is because it's an information push - to propagate (same root word) rather than publish information.