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:: Sunday, December 12, 2004 ::
Libertarianism on rise in Spain?
Samizdata has a first-hand report:
"Gabriel, interestingly, preferred to focus on the achievements of two individuals: Jesus Huerta de Soto, and Federico Jimenez Losantos. Huerta is the key scholar, and Jimenez is a key media performer, and both are men of "contageous enthusiasm", a phrase Gabriel used several times."
"He also mentioned the vital role that the Internet has played in this story. Again, summarising brutally, whereas the Communists owned the old media, the libertarians own the Internet, to the point where the Communists are getting seriously worried."
"Gabriel mentioned two internet sites in particular, liberalismo.org (scholarship) and Libertad Digital (current affairs). Both have astronomical hit rates, of the order of a million a month (sorry but I am bad at numbers). When those Communists type any Spanish 'issue' into their search engines, time and time again, the first few hits are libertarian analyses. No wonder they are so anxious, and have been saying that something ought to be done about controlling the Internet."
How odd--the Spanish communists and CBS apparently hold similar positions on political speech in the internet age.
Sort of related in a round-a-bout kinda way: Don't miss this surprising post about Syrian college students over at Instapundit.
:: Max 11:50 AM [+] ::
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