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Re:Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represen... by wostusername on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:25PM (#21634007)
>An alternative to live meetings is to move any procedures involving the full House to a web-based medium, similar to HN.

Can't wait for $PARTY party to yell "Conspiracy!" when their comments aren't showing up on the congressional web message board, while $OTHER_PARTY says they were simply "accidentally" deleted by the spam filter. Also something about Russian bots and hackers.

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Re:Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represen... by elihu on Monday November 25, 2019 @07:31PM (#21634468)
Maintaining such a website in a way that everyone involved thought was fair would be hard, but at least it's somewhat simplified if you restrict posts to only members of congress.

If some third party wants to mirror the site and let ordinary citizens post comments on their mirror, they could do that.

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