{"id":217,"date":"2007-08-07T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedom24.org\/rationalpost\/2007\/08\/07\/change-the-policy\/"},"modified":"2009-09-23T23:17:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:17:22","slug":"change-the-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedom24.org\/rationalpost\/change-the-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"change the policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>With YouTube <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/YouTube+video+debate+actually+worked\/2100-1028_3-6198405.html\" target=\"_blank\">now participating<\/a> in presidential primaries and digital media poised to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/6098d396-4448-11dc-90ca-0000779fd2ac,_i_rssPage=cbad994c-3017-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html\" target=\"_blank\">overtake traditional sources<\/a> of news and information, it isn&#8217;t surprising that virtual political action now poses a serious threat to democratic nationalism. As human rights align across borders and the distance between the world&#8217;s poor and <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.media.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">basic information technology<\/a> <\/em><em>shrinks<\/em><em>, digital advocacy like this &#8220;Change the Policy&#8221; video is bound to increase &#8212; and with dramatic political effect &#8212; in what might become the first truly global evolution of human values. 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