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Fire Walk With Me

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15. Yep. The internet allowed Occupy to flourish and for mainstream media to be fact-checked

Reply to Demo_Chris (Reply #12)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 11:54 AM

Feb 2013

and bypassed. They can shut down dissent and force upon us their narrative through their media channels if they control the internet. Which is about as sinister and unConstitutional and unAmerican as it gets. An extremely dark day.

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The internet is the last and only hope. Demo_Chris Feb 2013 #12

Yep. The internet allowed Occupy to flourish and for mainstream media to be fact-checked Fire Walk With Me Feb 2013 #15

Without the internet the only source for info Demo_Chris Feb 2013 #16

Uh... jtuck004 Feb 2013 #13

The last paragraph is telling... hootinholler Feb 2013 #14