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Until we stop playing the game of the Dark Ages, we'll keep marching back to the Dark Ages. And what's true in terms of the war is also true in terms of the politics of the war. The more liberals let themselves be divided, the more they play into the Far Right's hands.

In this kind of environment, everything is automatically questioned. Astroturf campaigns - like those the Bells are trying to run on net neutrality - don't work anymore. Skepticism toward all advertising rises to all-time highs.

The Internet provides a means with which we can deal with all our existing problems, if we liberate it, if we liberate ourselves, if we accept it and deal with it rather than trying to bottle it up and control it.

You would might as well patent education, or the Internet itself.

Filters should be run locally, and the default should be letting sites through, not blocking them. Restricting our kids to a Chinese Internet is not educating them. Nor is it protecting them. It's imprisoning them.

I don't have advice. I'm looking for advice. I don't want Israel destroyed, but this is the road Israel has chosen and I don't think it leads anywhere good.

If the jockocracy thinks Republicans have lost their minds, it's because they have.

We live longer than ever before. We have more creature comforts than our grandparents dreamt of. We are the dream the visitors to the 1939 World's Fair imagined. To the people of Washington's time, or Lincoln's, the way we live today is nothing less than magic.

It was a great set of Internet training wheels 10 years ago, but no one needs training wheels anymore -- the Web is now 17.