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Electronic Democracy
- To: [email protected]
- Subject: Electronic Democracy
- From: [email protected] (Bill_Stewart(HOY002)1305)
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 93 16:42:53 EDT
- Original-From: anchor.ho.att.com!wcs (Bill_Stewart(HOY002)1305)
- Original-To: toad.com!cypherpunks
An anonymous personage writes
> More succinctly, "Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on lunch."
> Up the republic!
Yeah, though representative government is four wolves voting on _which_ sheep
to have for lunch. Any time power is available, it can be abused;
it's nice to be working on systems that allow people to do transactions
without providing additional information which can be abused.