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Re:Can the Wonks Beat the Trolls on Government Sites? by embeddedradical on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @02:17PM (#670869)
direct democracy = mob rule. if we had direct democracy in the united states, sept 12th: we would have nuked someone. if iraq had direct democracy after the american invasion, surely, a good part of the population would have been killed.
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Re:Can the Wonks Beat the Trolls on Government Sites? by firebug on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @02:26PM (#670886)
Because of the digital divide, people with easy access to the internet and the proper education to use it are also unequally represented in an e-democracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-democracy

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