[Ekaros]

Exactly why should not every elected person's full details including phone number and address be publicly available? If they are doing nothing bad they have nothing to fear from electorate. Honest man has nothing to fear as proverb say.

And allowing direct communication would increase transparency and improve how well democracy can work.

[tjpnz]

Too many nutcases. You could be elected two seconds ago and there will already be a small line of people waiting to do you harm.

[nutjob2]

It's not practical, they'd just stop answering it and all you'd get is form responses. At least if we're talking heads of government or the like.

Local representatives is a different matter and I think some reps in Australia do give out their mobile numbers.

[watwut]

> If they are doing nothing bad they have nothing to fear from electorate.

This is not true. There are quite a few people who love to harassed whoever they see as opposition. That includes harassment of loved ones of the politicians. So, that is why.

> Honest man has nothing to fear as proverb say.

Nonsense. That is true in happy times and completely false in ... times like today.

[scott_w]

> If they are doing nothing bad they have nothing to fear from electorate.

Some possible reasons:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Don...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_shootings_of_Minnesota_le...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jo_Cox

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Amess

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Paul_Pelosi

I tried to choose a range of politicians to make my point.