Tag Archives: red herring

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WikiLeaks and InfoYouth

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Big government collaborates with big business to deny service to WikiLeaks, everyday people get organized and deny those big businesses the ability to offer services . . . and a 16 year-old Dutch kid gets arrested? From Bloomberg News: … … Continue reading →

censorship | education | quotes | surveillance | youth

young people: victims, criminals… red herring

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While reading Walter Lippmann’s “A Preface to Politics” my attention was mainly drawn to his discussion of the red herring. The red herring — a metaphor used to describe the obfuscation of, or distraction from, a particular object(ive) — is … Continue reading →