1984 Foreword: Internet and social control

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 17:51, jbor wrote: 

> Or, most
> bizarre of all, putting one's name to (and brazenly advertising) a manual
> which not only assists but *encourages* all the corporate sharks in their
> ongoing manipulations of the medium for the purposes of, if not fun,
> certainly profit, social control and, potentially anyway, tyranny, while
> simultaneously calling for the moderation of an open discussion forum and
> flooding the 'Net with propagandistic spam on a daily basis?!


If one is trying to promote one's self as a writer-editor-journalist an
embarrassing byline is better than no byline at all.


P.