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consider the source
Judging by the website of this "Personal Democracy Forum", one would not expect an objective assessment of anything having to do with the election. http://personaldemocracy.com/advocacy/advocacy
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Re:Tax money
General Dynamics IT is responsible for developing and maintaining WhiteHouse.gov
(Disclaimer: I work for GDIT, and don't know the specific details of this contract)
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Government 2.0
There is a lot of potential on the following websites: http://www.govexec.com/ http://www.govcentral.com/ http://www.personaldemocracy.com/
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Re:Don't overblow it...Let's see:
- Why do people in the developing world need bicycles? Because they can be used not only for transportation put to pump water.
- Why do people in the developing world need radios? Because they are important educational tools.
- Why could they possibly want video cameras? Because they are tools for encouraging self-representation in broadcast media.
- Why could those poor starving people in Africa need cell phones? Because they are tools for monitoring water safety, obtaining credit and making payments, determining where fishing happens, or simply communicating across distances without drums and smoke signals let alone to demand accountability from those unstable democracies you seem to assume exist everywhere
So why could they possibly need computers? Because, you numbskull, it is exactly one of the ways of addressing the problem of democratic instability, unstable food supplies, unstable housing, and poor educational systems. These mobile, networked computers can help redistribute access to information and reduce the control over such things as distribution of resources from authoritarian regimes that thrive on chaos, can put intelligence at the ends of the social network rather than at the center, and generally enable people to have access to information, tools, communities that can help them get the necessary lift and resource to stand up and Make Things Happen. -
Re:That's my Congressman!Well, the first amendment has never been applied to media not specifically mentioned in it: Speech and the press. That's why newspapers have "freedom of the press" but TV and radio are highly regulated and censored. Legislators and the courts have never considered them "the press." Many recent examples demonstrate that we need to establish that the internet is "the press" to have first amendment protection there. Here are some of those examples:
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Re:Read the damn legislation.
Hmmm. "Just when you thought the Federal Election Commission had it out for the blogosphere, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors took it up a notch and announced yesterday that it will soon vote on a city ordinance that would require local bloggers to register with the city Ethics Commission and report all blog-related costs that exceed $1,000 in the aggregate.
Anonymous Coward,
Blogs that mention candidates for local office that receive more than 500 hits will be forced to pay a registration fee and will be subject to website traffic audits, according to Chad Jacobs, a San Francisco City Attorney."
That is a exact quote from the article. Tell me...where is it exactly that it is stated that the regulation is aimed at the communications of lobbists and not individuals? One might say that is a safe assumption. But it does not say that.
May I suggest you read the proposed legislation. It begins on page 11 under "Amendments to Current Law". The article you cited, San Francisco May Regulate Blogging, sounds like nothing more than FUD.