Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.
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When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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