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发帖数: 2213 | 1 I was reading the Atlantic when I came across this.
"These tools are still in their infancy, but scaled up they could change
what democracy looks like in ways we're only just beginning to imagine. At
the extreme, we could theoretically have smartphone-enabled direct democracy
, where the public could vote directly on legislation and where Congress
would almost be irrelevant. At the same time, Lorelei Kelly of the New
America Foundation and the Smart Congress project warns against "mob
sourcing." One glance at what's trending on the White House's "We the People
" petition platform—e.g., "Investigate Jimmy Kimmel Kid's Table Government
Shutdown Show on ABC Network"—confirms this. Instead, she says, we need
something more like Rotten Tomatoesdemocracy. Unlike typical crowd sourcing,
the movie-reviewing site privileges expertise and aggregates reviews for
smarter results."
Basically, we are called mob, and we are hinted to be idiotic.
If this is the arrogance that we have to deal with, I guess it just says
that we have to carry on with our protest. These pundits need to understand
that our feelings are hurt, and somebody has to be responsible for it.
Source:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/the-us-need |
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