You're talking about the worst possible scenario!
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Read this comment to understand *what* I think of when I think of direct e-democracy:
Decentralized Democracy (Score:3, Interesting)
by rhakka (224319) on Friday September 05, @02:08PM (#6881407)
Mod Parent Up.
This sounds a lot like what I envision direct democracy to be. Though I was thinking about "earmarking" parties and not individuals. Well said!
Re:E-democracy *should mean* direct voting
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Your premise is that people are inherently evil. I do not believe that. Ignorant, maybe. Stupid, maybe. Remember that the declaration of independance and the constitution already define basic human and civil rights. IF e-voting was available, there would be no DMCA, no infinite extension of copyrights, no patriot act and god knows how many laws that benefit corporations and small special interest groups instead of the majority of u.s citizens.
E-democracy *should mean* direct voting
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EXTRACT FROM THE ARTICLE:
E-democracy is a term that elicits a wide range of reactions[...]Will it bring about direct voting on every issue under the sun via the Internet? [...](The answers ? no, no, and no.)
Direct voting is democracy at its purest form. All the corruption going on, the lobbys, the exchanges of favors between politicians and pretty much everything that makes people like you and me desillusionned by politics and politicians would *DISAPPEAR* if direct e-voting was implemented. It cuts the middlemen (politicians) out and that is always a good things.
Of course, I'll be dead before this happens but a man can dream.
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Read this comment to understand *what* I think of when I think of direct e-democracy: Decentralized Democracy (Score:3, Interesting) by rhakka (224319) on Friday September 05, @02:08PM (#6881407)
Mod Parent Up. This sounds a lot like what I envision direct democracy to be. Though I was thinking about "earmarking" parties and not individuals. Well said!
Your premise is that people are inherently evil. I do not believe that. Ignorant, maybe. Stupid, maybe. Remember that the declaration of independance and the constitution already define basic human and civil rights. IF e-voting was available, there would be no DMCA, no infinite extension of copyrights, no patriot act and god knows how many laws that benefit corporations and small special interest groups instead of the majority of u.s citizens.
EXTRACT FROM THE ARTICLE: E-democracy is a term that elicits a wide range of reactions[...]Will it bring about direct voting on every issue under the sun via the Internet? [...](The answers ? no, no, and no.) Direct voting is democracy at its purest form. All the corruption going on, the lobbys, the exchanges of favors between politicians and pretty much everything that makes people like you and me desillusionned by politics and politicians would *DISAPPEAR* if direct e-voting was implemented. It cuts the middlemen (politicians) out and that is always a good things. Of course, I'll be dead before this happens but a man can dream.
The only kernels i'm familiar with are pop corn kernels, so I'm going to leave it at that.
I did a project on this technology for school back in 1994. I would have posted it but Slashdot didn't exist back then.