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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.


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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