From Common Dreams:
Former vice president Al Gore and Napster co-founder and Web entrepreneur Sean Parker on led a discussion Monday evening at the South By Southwest conference (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. An audience of thousands attended the Austin Convention Center talk and more thousands more watched via a live stream.
“Our democracy has been hacked.” said Gore. “I’d like to see a new movement called Occupy Democracy,” Gore said as Parker nodded in agreement and a packed auditorium of attendees cheered and applauded.
To fix what he called a no-longer functional U.S. government, Gore urged the audience to begin a new “Occupy Democracy” movement. He pushed for the creation and implementation of digital tools and social media to “change the democratic conversation.”
That’s exactly YourView is trying to do… though without any particular agenda (left/right/green etc.).
Jed Blore
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Tim van Gelder
Interesting. The political situation in the U.S. is of course even worse than here in Australia. I see very little hope for them in the near future at least, but hopefully we can do something about our system.