Obama: Tech products harmful to democracy?

[MacUser]

"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said.

He bemoaned the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction," in the clamor of certain blogs and talk radio outlets.
"All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."

Source:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... UFXbffoObg


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Forget Daily Terrorists attempting to blow us up, Illegal Immigration, Soaring Debt, Rising Unemployment, etc etc.

It's your iPad, iPod, iPhone that's the problem. Zowie.

Apple are you listening? You are the demons in Obamas world.

[MacUser]

Remembered this...

President Obama gives Queen iPod loaded with videos, Broadway tunes

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... z0naiPEl4J

[MacUser]

And yet more from 2008!!

Baracking out
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/o ... 08.article

WASHINGTON — Bob Dylan. Yo-Yo Ma. Sheryl Crow. Jay-Z. These aren't musical acts in a summer concert series: They're artists featured on Barack Obama's iPod.

''I have pretty eclectic tastes,'' the Democratic presidential contender said in an interview to be published in Friday's issue of Rolling Stone.

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[dalebert]

what more can u say about a man who just keeps contradicting himself all the time? What a loser and a man who has no ideal at on being a president of a great country such as these United States !

[one love]

yeah and he also wanted to be the first president with a blcakberry. He actually ran part of his campaign being the first "high tech pres." hypocrite.

[MacUser]

Well now apparently the news and related watchdog media needs to be "controlled"... and we are now presented with the transparent coy act of playing dumb about all this dangerous hi-tech information.

How convenient...