Technology (Smallish Post 1)

The blessing and the curse of this Internet age is that anyone can say anything online. I have found that researching current events, especially the latest American political campaigns, is a nightmare. Some things I read are things which I know from prior knowledge are patently false (especially regarding attacks on LDS and general Christian beliefs), but things like candidates' stances on various issues become muddied. There is a tendency for people to think that they are authorities on a subject when they've read about it online, and false notions or misrepresented facts get promulgated just as much or more as the truth. Perhaps because anonymity was harder to achieve, writers of books and magazines had to found their arguments on fact and reason, whereas it seems that the freedom which blogs and online comments grant brings the ugly, ignorant, and unreasonable side of humanity to light as well.