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For Real Things I Know: Price of ignorance of electronic age

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Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Price of ignorance of electronic age

There is a price to be paid for being ignorant of the new technology you are using. The Republicans seem to have paid a price for those members who are ignorant. Here's the story:

See, the website for George Bush's reelection campaign is www.georgebush.com. Some enterprising souls made a parody website on www.georgebush.org. Well, those Republicans who don't really understand the difference between .org and .com (for example, Dick Cheney when he mixed up factcheck.com and factcheck.org) sometimes replied or sent messages to yourrepublicanfriend@georgebush.org. Some of these messages are very revealing about the lengths the Republicans might go to in order to keep people from being able to vote.

Luckily, georgebush.org has a mail server which just keeps all the messages sent to a non-existing user... and the website owners just recently discovered this fact so there's a wealth of emails they have received from tech-ignorant Republican campaign people.

Lovely.

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