imhotepmp - There is a huge amount of hate-based crap on the Internet, that illustrates rather clearly the dark side of the emerging culture that Governor Bush was alluding to in his statement.
I would suspect if the Governor were given longer than a minute or two to fully explain his ideas on the subject, that you would see that he doesn't believe that the Internet is the CAUSE of the culture breakdown, but a contributor to it yes.
I believe that the hate-based, porn, and deviant content on the net is a definite contributor to the erosion of character, morality, and values in our society.... you bet. I've seen it in action.
If the net can increase business for businesses, you can bet the same approach will increase "business" for the hate-mongers and psychos in this country.
Whatever it is you want to justify, no matter how abhorrent, you can find a site or two (or a thousand) that tells you "Cool, good deal, go for it!" on the Net.
Please don't try to read something into what was said. You can't judge a whole position on a one or two sentence summary of a very complicated position.
Opinionated