The Internet: Killer Virus of the State

Al Gore knows it. Newt Gingrich knows it. The talk radio junkies can smell it, at least the ones who can read and write.

Our civic fabric is unraveling. And as it does, uncontrolled, undigested and unmanaged information is spewing out. Free reign is being given to a wild cornucopia of ideas and opinions that would never have passed into broad circulation filtered through the conformity of the old media.

Watch carefully as the various organs of state waken to the threat and fire up their immune systems.

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