Post #136

Sad to see Facebook slammed for about the only thing they don't quite deserve to be slammed for. https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/voter-manipulation-on-social-media-now-a-global-problem-report-finds/ "Let's place very important decisions in the hands of people who are easily manipulated – and then try to prevent highly motivated parties from manipulating these people. Or rather, let's just pressure somebody else into solving this for us. Somehow." I think that electoral democracy (along with many other kinds of democracy) is not a fit form of government for the modern ultra-connected age. Just as the rise of mass media enabled the present day democracies, the rise of global internet acess is likely to eventually phase them out – and enable something new.