Reply To: Where did my post go?

[Brian H]

Transmute wrote:

Al never claimed to have invented the Internet:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Snopes? Double check anything they say. They’re a retired couple with an agenda. No special sources or credibility.

let me get this straight, if I said X did not not say Y, and I find reference for it, your response is “well they are just biased”? So if i say “2+2=4” your response is “well the mathematicians are just biased” even a child can say 2+2=4 and has no special source or credibility, well if your so inclined then prove to me 2+2 =/= 4 then, while your at it show me where and when Al Gore (the bore) said he invented the internet!
I wasn’t making any comment about Gore, just warning you and anyone else not to treat Snopes as an authority.
Do your own cross-checking.

The Snopes summary has most of the facts, but it’s heavily larded with opinions and evaluations, too. The default assumption must be that any article with such content has persuasion as its goal, not informing or fact-checking. Fact-selection, aka gatekeeping, is potent mind-control.