[antimedia] antimedia: I'm wondering what you think....

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Posted by antimedia:
I'm wondering what you think....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1166386012.shtml


   ....about [1]this idea. I can't quote it here easily, so go read it
   first.
   Politicians already tend to ignore mass-mailed missives, claiming they
   aren't reflective of their constituents' true feelings. When they
   discovered how much email they would get, many of them stopped
   accepting email and went to web-forms, which require manual input. (At
   least they did until this version of Blue Frog was released.) If the
   web-forms generate massive amounts of input, what's to stop them from
   simply taking the forms off the web and going back to snail-mail for
   input? (It's not like our politicians are all that eager for citizen
   input to begin with.)
   Furthermore, I can see how this could be easily "hi-jacked" by special
   interests trying to make it appear that the entire country is opposed
   to something when it's truly only a small minority. Indeed the first
   one to leap on this technology is a "privacy" advocate who thinks we
   should be tracking terrorists and whom other privacy advocates have
   actively opposed due to the extreme views that he holds.
   I suspect this won't get far before the politicians either figure out
   how to ignore it or pass a law making it illegal.

References

   1. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72291-0.html?tw=wn_index_1