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Introduction

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Potential and Realized Dangers

Further Required Research

Conclusion

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To truly appreciate the influence of the bloggosphere and the Internet in general in ideological and political disputes, there would have to be a census taken of all the blogs in which the writer all but exclusively serves a political agenda. Only then could the true magnitude of the danger be found. Admittedly it is unlikely that the majority of the active blogs online are politically oriented, but if even 1% of them were, it would be a sizable if not imposing population.

Once a survey of political content being propagated online through web blogs and activist sites could be done, another trend should be investigated: the Internet Confederation. The writer of this work defines an Internet Confederation as a group of websites and/or blogs that adhere to a specific ideological agenda that for resources quote and cite each other rather than using neutral or antithetical sources. These Internet Confederations most likely include scores of sites and blogs, who through their isolationism practice extensive groupthink, which makes them increasingly deviate from reality. Charting these groups and warning society at large of their existence would be beneficial.