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John Kerry: "The Internet Makes It Much Harder To Govern"
- smsm42 13y agoI certainly would hope so. But they're working on it, just give them some time.
- devx 13y agoThe Internet makes it much harder to abuse the people and government powers. Go figure.
- FedRegister 13y agoThe Internet does no such thing. It just makes it harder to keep those abuses secret, and it makes it harder for the government to prevent people from talking about it.
- jayfuerstenberg 13y agoBy govern he means control people.
- FedRegister 13y agoThe Internet makes it much harder to govern in the same way that a free press in the 1700s made it harder to govern - when you have viewpoints outside of government propaganda available people might choose to take those viewpoints over the government's own. So the government has to listen to the people to have at least an air of legitimacy, and there's nothing that pisses off a bureaucrat more than having to listen to those they are accountable to.