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 (DIR) Post #Avp9cheBM6n42ecMnw by Dianora@ottawa.place
       2025-07-05T12:53:05Z
       
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       The real reason libraries are closed down."Some argue that the Internet and the new communications technologies are breaking the corporate stranglehold on journalism and opening an unprecedented era of interactive democratic media. And it is true and important that the Internet has increased the efficiency and scope of individual and group networking. This has enabled people to escape the mainstream media's constraints in many and diverse cases."pg. XV- Chomsky *Manufacturing Consent *"However, although the Internet has been a valuable addition to the communications arsenal of dissidents and protesters, it has limitation as a critical tool. For one thing, those who information needs are most acute are not well served by the Internet - many lack access, its databases are not designed to meet their needs, and the use of databases (and effective use of the Internet in general) presupposes knowledge and organization."pg. XVI- ibid#Fediverse #Libraries #Democracy
       
 (DIR) Post #Avp9cjBBesmknJ4Et6 by monarchist@na.social
       2025-07-05T13:10:36Z
       
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       @Dianora Also, they have become ideological battlefields, at which point all sides want them removed.