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One Woman's Fight to Save P2P

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the forlorn-hope dept.

jalefkowit writes "I'm a writer for the Online Community Report, and in our last issue we ran a story I wrote that might be of interest to the Slashdot readership. Slashdot has already mentioned the campaign of Tara Sue Grubb to unseat Howard Coble in North Carolina's 6th congressional district. We thought this story merited some deeper analysis, so I put together a piece entitled "Tara Sue Takes Aim" that ran in the latest issue of OCR. I'd love to hear the community's opinion of our take on the significance of her campaign."

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  1. Elections via TV -- "American President" by Shalome · · Score: 2, Interesting

    CNN is running this story about an "American Idol"-like TV show to find a Presidential candidate. How's THAT for optimism?!?

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  2. Two-party system by photonic · · Score: 4, Interesting
    This might get the discussion a bit off-topic, but i think you should concentrate a bit more on the root cause that prevents getting this kind of sane people in congress instead of supporting a probably hopeless battle against big money.


    In my opinion this is the district-system. If votes are counted only in small regions that yield only one seat, you effectively create a two-party system. These two usually keep each other in close balance: you stay in power until you screw up and then the other party gets its chance for a few years.


    Here in Europe (except for England and France?), the votes are usually counted in the whole country (usually with a threshold of a few percent). Most countries therefore have a mix of parties (green, labour, liberal, christian, ...) which represents the general opinion more closely. This might also reduce the chance of big money influence.

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  3. Political muscle by octalgirl · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Once again the Internet proves its power with regards to public communication and information. When the subject is right, peoples voices will be heard. She is getting much more publicity than my congressman, for that I am certain. How intriguing that through a simple electronic payment that was not easily conceived only a few years ago, that I can now offer support for someone who is not even in my district. The more she gets noticed, the more everyone standing up for our freedom of speech, online and off, gets noticed. A win for her, or at least a very public loss for her there, seems like it could benefit us all. The more her status gets raised, congress in every state will take notice. She seems somewhat of a net newbie, but many are voted into political office with little experience other than the desire to listen and act for the people.