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Sims Online Presidential Campaign Shapes Up

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 13, 2004 @05:20AM from the virtual-offices dept.

Ant writes "Wired News has an article on a campaign for the presidency of Alphaville, the biggest city in The Sims Online. Two challengers will square off in a final primary for the opportunity to unseat Alphaville's incumbent president, the appropriately named Mr-President, in next month's general election."

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Re:SIMS IS NOT A DEMOCRACY by redJag · 2004-03-13 05:25 · Score: 5, Insightful

A democracy doesn't imply free speech.
Only two parties? by fuzzy12345 · 2004-03-13 05:32 · Score: 5, Insightful

With only two candidates running, there won't be much of a diversity of viewpoints, and they'll no doubt have virtually (grin) indistinguishable policies on everything, in the middle of the political spectrum.
Art imitates life, I guess.

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Democracy & Free Speech by Baron_Yam · 2004-03-13 05:33 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'd argue that a democracy without freedom of speech is not a true democracy.

If you can't speak freely, you can't expect to exchange information regarding the government - which means you're not able to freely cast an informed VOTE... in which case you have a sham democracy. QED.