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<DIV>Interesting article, Deirdre.</DIV>
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<DIV>I guess the primary question is whether the right to provide misinformation
should belong only to Murdoch, licensed media and shock jocks or whether it
should be available to all of us. The instances above and many others were also
carried by some mainstream media during this particular crisis and there are of
course many other examples where we jump to conclusions – and to retaliation -
based on misinformation. Iraq wars come to mind...and they are probably as old
as McCarthyism and even Middle Ages witch burning and Inquisitions.</DIV>
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<DIV>I don’t know how we improve critical thinking faculties in human behaviour.
They were lacking before the Internet as well of course. I don’t think the
Internet or social media either aid or abet this deep seated fear based flaw in
human thinking and subsequent behaviour.</DIV>
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<DIV>Ian Peter</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=williams.deirdre@gmail.com
href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com">Deirdre Williams</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:25 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=governance@lists.igcaucus.org
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [governance] Another view of Social Media and
Multistakeholderism??</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Deirdre<BR clear=all>
<DIV> </DIV>-- <BR>“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but
knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979 </DIV></DIV>
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