Maybe we should start a 'Blogs for bombs' amnesty program, where people trade bombs for a voice on the internet. While that may sound stupid and perhaps facetious, it's a blind stab at part of the problem - when people feel they must resort to violence, it is usually because they do not believe that they are being heard.
I would suggest, instead, that when people resort to violence, it is usually because they believe it is a means to achieve their ends. Political violence in Iraq today is mostly being organized and propagated by two groups: (1) ex-Baathists, who previously ran the entire country for their own economic and social privilege, and wish to return to such a state of affairs; and (2) extreme Islamists, who wish to impose a Taliban-style regime. I doubt if either of these groups will find blogs as a reasonable alternative to bombs.
Mark
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Mark Warschauer
Associate Professor, Dept. of Education and Dept. of Informatics
University of California, Irvine
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