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Yesterday in his lecture to the Swedish Academy, Nobel literature prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio said “if the Internet had existed at the time, perhaps Hitler’s criminal plot would not have succeeded – ridicule might have prevented it from ever seeing the light of day.”  He claims that the spread of “information on the Internet has given the world a new tool to forestall conflicts.”

A bit of a stretch I think. As Gawker.com says “it was precisely Hitler’s grasp of modern communications that accelerated his rise to power.”

And in this world of information and the fast spread of news, we still have the likes of mad uncle Bob in Zimbabwe, and the world allowed Bush to invade Iraq.

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Jonny S

December 8, 2008 at 6:46 pm

Couldn’t agree more. IT was also meant to save the Tibetans from the Chinese and the Burmese from their military dictatorship. Hasn’t happened yet.

 

demx

December 10, 2008 at 10:10 pm

“mad uncle Bob in Zimbabwe, and the world allowed Bush to invade Iraq.”

Unrelated. Zimbabwe doesn’t have the Internet and Iraq is not a genocide. Comparing something like the Iraq war to what Hitler did to the Jewish population is just unforgivable. The Iraq war might have been based off of misguided information but the killing of innocent people in cold blood is unforgivable. Please, do not make that comparison and remove it.

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