Archbishop Against "Unpoliced Conversation"?
Excerpt from Article at London Times Online
Archbishop hits out at web-based media 'nonsense'
By Ruth Gledhill, Religion CorrespondentTHE Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has criticised the new web-based media for "paranoid fantasy, self-indulgent nonsense and dangerous bigotry". He described the atmosphere on the world wide web as a free-for-all that was "close to that of unpoliced conversation".
One can only hope (and pray) that Dr. Williams will reconsider his attack on "unpoliced conversation."
{{_ it is hard for me to believe any media anymore.}}
I believe that The Times of London can be depended on to quote the Archbishop of Canterbury correctly.
Otherwise Babel has truly returned.
Both The Times and Dr. Williams are somewhat of the liberal persuasion, I believe, both politically and, to the extent that they are interested in the subject, theologically.
The horror that some liberals have at the existence of "unpoliced conversation" and their discomfort with the web, which is a hotbed of such horrors, discloses their true nature, perhaps, as crypto communists and crypto fascists, looking forward to the reign of the thought police.
It is those with weak arguments that wish to avoid the turmoil of free competition.
Neither Dr. Williams nor The Times seem to have noticed that prejudice against "unpoliced conversation" is a bit at odds with the ideals of a free society.
