Peer to peer politics (Slate article - 7/14/2003) on Dean surge

[ed_vadem]

the link is

http://slate.msn.com/id/2085610/

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Peer-to-Peer Politics
Should Howard Dean be a little bit afraid of the Internet?

Chris Suellentrop
Posted Monday, July 14, 2003, at 4:29 PM PT


It's too early to say for certain, but Howard Dean may turn out to be the Napster of presidential politics: the force that enables the Internet to upend an entire industry, threatens to transform the way it collects money, and opens the eyes of the average person to yet another way to use the Net. But if Dean is a political Napster, it will probably mean more for politics in general than it means for Howard Dean. After all, two years after Napster went dark, people are still logging on to the Internet to swap music files. Ultimately, Napster empowered music users more than it empowered itself. Something analogous will probably be true with Internet politics. That's good news for political junkies, but it could be bad news for Howard Dean.

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[Nazgul35]

1. I think that Gov. Dean

cares more about empowering the people then gaining for himself...

and i'm not quite sure how this is bad news for the govenor....the Napster thing is actually a foolish analogy...it assumes that Gov. Dean is going to be crushed by the federal government, or something similar...

[Larkspur]

2. Yes, that's exactly how I feel about Dean and his campaign

It is about restoring America and encouraging participatory democracy, just like our pre-TV age ancestors had.