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Restart, Restore, or Continue Creating Democracy?

Posted by michael on from the abort-retry-ignore dept.

The Importance of writes "LawMeme's James Grimmelmann, whose work has previously been noted on Slashdot, has written a new piece about virtual life and death in MMORPGs, and what that means for online democracy. Any serious discussion of democracy online that features comments on "The Secret of Monkey Island" has got to be good."

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  1. 5000 new job by stonebeat.org · · Score: 2, Funny

    Plus gaming industry created 5000 new jobs last year. How more democratic can we get ;)

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    Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
  2. The key to incumbency by kurosawdust · · Score: 5, Funny
    Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Select Start

    Re-elected baby!!

  3. GROG!!! by ENOENT · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hi, I'm Guybrush Threepwood. I want to be a pirate.

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    That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
  4. Re:Get a life . . by MikeXpop · · Score: 2, Funny

    I for one welcome our new democratic police state.

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  5. faggity-ass politically correct movement by handy_vandal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Alas, it's no longer politically correct to use the phrase "faggity-ass politically correct movement".

    Now you're supposed to use the phrase "differently intolerant".

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  6. Re:International relations in a borderless world by The+Famous+Brett+Wat · · Score: 2, Funny
    I've always wondered what it would be like in the world if barriers for people to interact with people from other parts of the world, whether geographical or language were removed.

    "Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation." -- Douglas Adams

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