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Date Posted: 09:07:54 01/08/00 Sat
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Subject: "Online Culture" Article

Wired for Liberty

Libertarian ideas and personalities continue to pop up at unprecedented levels in the U.S. media. In the April "WiReD" magazine, Internet critic Jon Katz observes:
"Where freedom is rarely mentioned in mainstream media anymore, it is ferociously defended -- and exercised daily -- on the Net. ...Where our existing political institutions are viewed as remote and unresponsive, this online culture offers the means for individuals to have a genuine say in the decisions that affect their lives. Where conventional politics is suffused with ideology, the digital world is obsessed with facts."

Katz went on to discuss "Netizens" in detail: "[S]ome of their common values are clear: they tend to be libertarian, materialistic, tolerant, rational, technologically adept, disconnected from conventional political organizations [and] narrow labels like liberal or conservative. They are not politically correct, rejecting dogma in favor of sorting through issues individually, preferring discussions to platforms."

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