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Copyright As Weapon In US Senate Campaign
kfogel writes "Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate for US Senate in Nevada, is using a copyright 'cease-and-desist' letter to stop her opponent, incumbent Harry Reid (currently majority leader in the US Senate), from reposting old versions of her campaign website. The old pages are politically sensitive because Angle campaigned from the far right in the primary, but is now toning that down for the general election."
As kfogel notes, the letter "also accuses the Reid campaign of intending to impersonate Angle's campaign, which seems doubtful, but who knows?"
instead of just Hillary Clinton?
The real problem is rational ignorance.
If voters did even a small bit of independent research, they would find that she was running on the far right during the primary and her strategy would backfire horribly.
However, the chance of your one vote having a significant effect on the outcome of an election, let alone on your future life, is vanishingly small. Therefore there is almost no incentive to take the time and effort to know that candidates are using dishonest strategies.
Now, one could argue that some ideal form of the press could reduce the effort required to become informed, but given that you still only have a one in several thousand (or hundred thousand) chance of influencing an election by voting they could make it practically zero effort to become informed and it would still not make rational sense for you to care.
it doesn't matter, cults aren't okay.
Thank you for that textbook example of the Genetic Fallacy.
If the program actually works, it doesn't really matter who takes credit for it.