The Strangest Online Political Challenges of 2007

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 4, 2008 @06:02PM from the different-is-good dept.

destinyland writes "Blorgable has a list the year's ten strangest online political moments arguing that 2007 was the year digital identities started encroaching into the culture. While the U.S. Senate was busy fighting cartoon-related digital terrorism with 'The Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act of 2007,' Ann Coulter's web page ended up 'mistakenly' announcing her retirement after someone hacked it! But the unpredictable changes were sometimes deadly serious. Even the mainstream media noticed 'the ghosts of MySpace' — those U.S. soldiers whose web pages ultimately outlived them."

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Re:My idea by ricebowl · 2008-01-04 18:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Everyone able to vote who didn't would automatically be considered of a member of the Apathetic Party, therefore I'd get their vote.

It's a nice idea; and while I don't know where you come from, over here in the UK those who don't vote are considered to be, rather than lazy/disinterested/unimpressed, content with the currently-elected party. So unfortunately if we don't explicitly vote contrary to the current party we're presumed to have voted for it.

I'm not sure this is entirely fair, but I guess you can see why the (I want to say 'ruling party,' but I'm not sure that's entirely correct) party-in-power doesn't want to change it.