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Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!

Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network to the citizens who inhabit our new digital world. Consent of the Networked should be required reading for all of those involved in building our networked future as well as those who live in it.