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Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice — a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.

— Wendy Kaminer Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety (2000)

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