relieving a bit of online "clutter" attached to email accounts, usernames, etc. that I either no longer use or no longer have access to. I fully intend on opening a new account and maintaining it because I love youtube and have never experienced dissatisfaction of any sort from this site. What y'all do that not everyone appreciates is provide a reasonably secure, incredibly accessible, and surprisingly broad stream of user generated content that in effect helps to "flatten," along with Wikipedia, Digg, Blogger, etc.; the informational and intellectual discourse of this and increasingly many other countries as well. What this does is blur and challenge artificial institutional barriers designed and put in place specifically to limit and disempower the public by narrowing the streams of media through which "sanctioned" or "appropriate/accepted" newsmaking, reporting, commentary, may be consumed. One effect of Youtube is to degrade the monopolist hold of standard television and printed news media, which in turn reinvigorates our democracy. Thank you so much for making the first ten years of the millennium the most retroactively hilarious since the Prohibition Era.
Sincerely,
Bette
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