"OpenCongress is a free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to help make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement." We need a UK equival

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Defending Freedom in the Digital World - EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people — lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries — working to protect your digital rights.

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Exactly!

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"In short, government learns to let go of the web. Last week, Whitehall took its first step towards this vision by publishing, with ministerial blessing, a report calling on the UK government to

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"...the company that makes Eve ... says it will tackle the problem the way a democracy would. In what appears to be a first, the company plans to hold elections so that players can select member

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the question has always been open, at least to some ‘resident’s, as to whether owning Second Life means that the residents are thus the only ones with any right to govern it.

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"Work on a billion-dollar petrochemical plant in a major Chinese port has been put on hold following a text message campaign by protestors angry about industrial pollution, state media said on We

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"Here is the ultimate Second Life paradox: while Residents as a whole love their freedom, for the most part they have never shown any collective love for democracy’s more strenuous duties."

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"An increasing number of academics ... are concerned that Wikipedia is becoming a stronghold for cranks: people who anonymously submit and edit entries on pet subjects to bolster the credibility

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“When political agendas are constantly changing, it’s a sign that politicians are copying each other rather than thinking for themselves.” The social sciences confirm another tautology.

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Cory Doctorow wonders if it's possible to create a game that's a democracy, where your in-world property is really yours.

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"So why ask for people's opinions if you aren't interested in what they say? Because people are lazy enough to assume that protest and participation are the same thing."

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"Paradoxically, contemporary marketing will not destroy the virtual salons; the virtual salons are destroying contemporary marketing strategy and replacing it with something altogether new."

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"Doug Rushkoff has come up with a clever neologism: Sock Mobs. It refer to the gang of bogus names and voices -- usually the work of a single person -- that can swarm the comment sections of blog

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"You might own a choice ... But your beliefs are not about you; beliefs are about the world. Your beliefs should be your best available estimate of the way things are; anything else is a lie.&quo

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"...the US ranks fairly badly as a democracy itself, coming in 17th worldwide. [...] The other major partner in the "war on terror", the UK, is ranked 23rd."

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"...internet voting is considered heresy in security circles, where the concept has been repeatedly and violently pilloried since at least 2000. If American voters are not ready to trust Diebold,

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"Tuesday's midterm election provided a sobering reminder that electronic voting technology is still not ready to shoulder the responsibilities of democracy."

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"A senior executive for Microsoft has said the firm could pull out of non-democratic countries [...he] said concerns over the repressive regime might force it to reconsider its business in China.

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"With creation of a new federal Web site, [US] citizens will at least be able to see where some of their tax money goes." Now this is an idea I've long wanted to see over here. Fiscal transp

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David Louis Edelman has an idea that reminds me of the 'Campaign for Digital Democracy' idea I've been kicking around my mind. Expect more on this in the future.

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"Blackbeard and Ben Franklin deserve equal billing for founding democracy in the United States and New World, a new University of Florida study finds." Arrr, surely 'tis the truth!

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Google's brave new world of home video gets off to a shaky start

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