1. The Internet is the New Public Sphere
... other words a generally observed set of rules governing debate - must exist in the public sphere. These rules are as follows (as laid out in his Discourse Ethics: Notes on Philosophical Justification, quoted by Bass): 1. Every subject with the competence to speak and act is allowed to take part in a discourse. 2a. Everyone is allowed ... greater level of equality into public debate. As accces to the Internet is - potentially - universal, it could eventually involve all Humans in a free deliberation about the issues that concern them. There have already been examples of political initiat...
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