Blogs and Elections

 

In January 2005 I wrote:

 

"Blogs should make future elections interesting. With no way to control them, governments will have no way of restricting them as they restrict 527s and other election tools. And, as there are no controls, accuracy and truthfulness will not be limiting factors.  As studies routinely show, when there is no accountability people's behavior is unreliable. Once, it was advocated that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards would eventually produce the complete works of William Shakespeare but thanks to the Internet we now know that is not correct. But just imagine what a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards will do to future elections."