The Libertarians were pretty dominant online in the age of Usenet but the Left seems pretty dominant on Tumblr and Wikipedia among others. I find this part of t

The Libertarians were pretty dominant online in the age of Usenet but the Left seems pretty dominant on Tumblr and Wikipedia among others. I find this part of the intro puzzling: > If digital communication technology promotes leftist values, why has its spread coincided with such a stark decline in the Left’s political fortunes? Um, WHAT stark decline? Can you give some metric that shows this "decline" as a tangible, measurable thing, or is this just a vague sense of nostalgia for a mythic past when the Left seemed actually radical, when it was fighting the establishment, before it became the establishment? Various flavors of "the Left" currently control the presidency, most of the newspapers and television networks and universities and most of congress. Mandatory "universal health care" is now being inflicted upon the populace, which means we're finally at a point where every plank on the socialist party platform of 1928 has become law. So if there IS a decline, perhaps it's just that diminishing returns have set in on the whole project. But I'd still like to see the evidence. ( http://libertarianmajority.net/socialist-party-of-america-1928-platform http://libertarianmajority.net/socialist-party-of-america-19... ) As a side note, it's amusing the author doesn't realize "self-described entrepreneur" is Silicon-Valley-speak for "unemployed". :-)