the effects of social media in political awareness
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Bienvenido “Nonoy” Oplas Jr.
Minimal Government Thinkers, Inc.
The effects of social media in political
awareness
UP Sapul forum
Main library lobby, UP Diliman, Quezon City
14 September 2016
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Creating political awareness for less/minimal (not zero)
government, free market and individual freedom
Free market – free trade, voluntary exchange, zero to little government
intervention in many sectors of the economy. More individual freedom,
personal and civil society responsibility.
* 3 types of free marketers:
(1) Anarchist – zero state authority, zero central (and local?) government,
citizens’ self-government by voluntary organizations and individuals.
(2) Minarchist – small or minimal government, function is mainly to enforce
the rule of law, protect the citizens against aggression, their right to private
property, right to liberty.
(3) “Minimax” – one side advocates minarchy, another side advocates
more government, more or higher taxes. Confused free marketers.
* Independent -- receive or solicit no government funding or donation
(local, national, multilateral/foreign aid money). Only private and civil
society donations.
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NOT advocating “good governance” under a BIG government
• Advocacy is limited, minimal governance – small government, small
and few taxes, few regulations and prohibitions.
• NOT good governance of a big, intrusive, prohibitionist and tax-hungry
government. Like “No business, no job creation allowed unless
entrepreneurs will first get the signatures and permits of regulators and
officials, dozens of permits.”
• Free society: everything is allowed except for a few prohibitions:
No murder, No abduction, No rape, No stealing, No destruction of
private property, etc. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, etc allowed so long as
none of the NOs mentioned is committed.
• Unfree society: everything is NOT allowed except with government
permits. Driving your car, putting up a business, building a house,
renovating a house or office, having a pet, etc. – all of them require
permits. Relatively easy to comply yet, but moving towards more
complicated, more costly permits.
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Outlets in spreading this pol.
awareness 1. blogs:
http://funwithgovernment.blogspot.com/
https://electricityasia.wordpress.com/
2. website: http://minimalgovernment.net/
(not regularly updated though)
3. South East Asia Network for
Development (SEANET), KL-based
http://seanetwork.asia/,
https://seanet2.wordpress.com/.
4. Previously with “Fat-Free Economics”,
http://interaksyon.com/
Now with “My cup of liberty”,
http://www.bworldonline.com/
Also with Business 360, Kathmandu-
based monthly mag., http://biz360.com.np/
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Free trade
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Free market in energy policies
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Climate alarmism, governments and the UN
El Nino-La Nina cycles, 1950-2015
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Facebook and
the socialists
"You know that
free markets and
free trade have
won when self-
proclaimed
socialists and
communists
express their
views on
Facebook,
Youtube and
Twitter using
Macbooks and
iPhones."
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Social media and pol. awareness: Bernard Ong in facebook
• Bernard is a fellow UPSE alumni, fellow student activist in the 80s, Marcos
was still the President.
• He’s not a columnist in a newspaper or online papers, he only posts in fb
and hundreds or thousands of his followers watch for his postings.
• Viral post on “Attack the west…” with nearly 5l likes and nearly 6k shares.
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Rule of law and Duterte
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Concluding notes
• Social media provides information competition. Along the lines of
anti-oligopoly, anti-central planning and centralized thought
conditioning. Even the most well-thought lies and propaganda
cannot succeed if they are not shared in social media. Seemingly
ordinary fb posts that become viral, shared 5k+, 10k+ and
reaching out to tens or hundreds of thousands of readers. (Talo
pa ang maraming newspaper stories or columns)
• The free market system can guarantee this type of information
competition. Not central planning and big, interventionist
government.
• Big challenge now is how a creeping PH dictatorship with little respect
for human rights and international rule of law can be countered by
vigilant citizens through social media.
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