Will our democracy ever look like the internet? [View all]

[yurbud]

With far less government secrecy, more people participating in more decision-making, and even wikilegislation?

I suspect that fear of those kind of changes, not for specific crimes they have committed, is why the government has come down so hard on Bradley Manning, Aaron Schwartz, and are so eager to get their hands on Julian Assange.

And they fear it because when information can no longer be the exclusive property of a few, to dribble out or hide to their own advantage, money and power are not far behind.

Will we have the government that the few fear so much in our lifetime?

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	It will come but not in our lifetime
	0 (0%)
	It will come in a couple of decades
	2 (40%)
	It will happen as soon as those in power make another mistake on the order of magnitude of the Iraq War or the Wall Street, crash, bailout, and non-prosecution OR major revelations from behind the scenes of those events
	1 (20%)
	Those with power now can easily prevent anything of the kind from happening ever
	2 (40%)
	other
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