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by embeddedradical 6204 days ago
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.
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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