I'm a Citizen of the Internet, Where's My Passport?

Re:I'm a Citizen of the Internet, Where's My Passport? by icebraining on Monday March 12, 2012 @03:06PM (#3694908)

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

It's hardly a new position: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_citizen

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Re:I'm a Citizen of the Internet, Where's My Passport? by nextparadigms on Monday March 12, 2012 @04:25PM (#3695302)

But does that mean we'd need a "World Government" too? That part kind of scares me, although I think something like EU is pretty democratic, although still not perfect, which means that at some point in time, maybe during a crisis, they'd call for "streamlining" the Government, making things more centralized, and therefore the thing I fear most about a World Government.

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Re:I'm a Citizen of the Internet, Where's My Passport? by spindritf on Monday March 12, 2012 @05:44PM (#3695750)

By no measure is EU "pretty democratic". I never voted for anyone who matters in the EU bureaucracy, nor was I given an opportunity. We have people running the EU like baroness Ashton who has never been elected in any elections, ever in her life, not just for her current position. The democracy deficit is painfully obvious.

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