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The Inconvenience of Context
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 26 2012 @ 10:56 AM EDT
You know, if I had the resources, but bootstrapping somthing like that is
basically impossible with current politics.

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Long long ago...
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 26 2012 @ 01:07 PM EDT
An early internet BBS had some discussions on new policies for the BBS to run
under. Any user who was interested in the results could join the discussion
about various aspects of the policy as it was being drafted. For ISCABBS, it
worked very well to have direct discussions, but for a nation I'm not sure it
would work so well. I've seen mentions of some huge internet classroom software
that may be good at aggregating the responses. In the end, for ISCABBS, the
members of the policy committee were the ones who drafted the actual policy
documents. We were working from at most hundreds of responses for a given area.
I'm not sure how you could scale that to potentially millions on hot button
legislation. Even with aggregating software I'm sure it would take a team of
people to sift through and weigh the results.

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