Nobel laureate: Internet could have stopped Hitler

The Nobel Prize winner for literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, made an interesting statement in Stockholm, where he's picking up his prize this week. According to this report, Le Clezio said:

Who knows, if the Internet had existed at the time, perhaps Hitler's criminal plot would not have succeeded - ridicule might have prevented it from ever seeing the light of day.

It's a persuasive theory, and one that Ken McVay puts into practice every day. McVay runs the enormous website called Nizkor, that rebuts anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial conspiracy theories through arguments and documentation. McVay isn't as famous -- or as well paid -- as the Official Jews who prefer Internet censorship to the tougher task of actually rebutting anti-Semites. But he probably turns around more minds than they do, and he certainly does less damage to our civil liberties.

Le Clezio's theory is that information is power -- again, not a novel theory. And putting information into the hands of millions (or billions) of people is the first step to fighting against tyranny. I think that Le Clezio has an excellent real-time example, by the way, in China, where 20+ million bloggers, many of them anonymous, are the de facto "opposition" to the Communist government, exposing corruption, police abuses, torture and other heinous facts, even for just a few hours before the Internet censors there can react.

But who knows? Le Clezio is just a Nobel Prize winner. On the other side of the argument is Pearl Eliadis, who has made a healthy income off of the human rights racket for many years. And, unlike Le Clezio, Eliadis has actually coined a new word: "hatemongererer". Mr. Fancy Pants Nobel Prize Guy can't top that kind of intellectual horsepower, can he?

h/t KL