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Gore: 'Our democracy has been hacked'
The Hill ^

Posted on 03/13/2012 8:08:37 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Gore: 'Our democracy has been hacked' By Daniel Strauss - 03/13/12 10:18 AM ET

Al Gore said on Tuesday that America's democracy "has been hacked" and advocated for the use of digital tools to improve the government.

Speaking to the high-tech crowd at the South by Southwest technology conference in Austin, Texas, the former vice president said that social media and digital technology should be used to "change the democratic conversation."

"Our democracy has been hacked," Gore said, according to CNN. "It no longer works, in the main, to serve the interests of our people."

He also urged the audience to begin a new, online "Occupy Democracy" movement, according to The Associated Press.

Gore went on to describe his vision for a "wiki-democracy" of "digital flash mobs calling out the truth" and "a government square that holds people accountable."

His comments came during a panel with Sean Parker, who founded Napster and helped start Facebook.

Both men said that digital tools and social media could be used to counteract the influence of money in politics, urging people to do more than "like" something on Facebook.

"It's not enough to take that small action online," said Parker, who was portrayed by Justin Timberlake in the move "The Social Network." "A referral or notification is not really the same thing as showing up at a protest or actually opening up your wallet."

Gore also criticized the Supreme Court's ruling in the Citizens United case, which helped increase the influence of super-PACs in elections.

"When we win the conversation, then the pressure can be put on the politicians and elected officials to do the right thing," Gore said.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: algore; algoredemocracy; constitutionrepublic; democrats; irrelevant; liberallunacy
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To: Gene Eric; Registered

21 posted on 03/13/2012 8:24:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: tacticalogic

I think we should encourage their madness. Egg them on.

Vote conservative and restore sanity to America. Put the adults back in charge.


22 posted on 03/13/2012 8:24:07 AM PDT by listenhillary (Look your representatives in the eye and ask if they intend to pay off the debt. They will look away)
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To: Sub-Driver

What Gore means is the Democrat/Socialist/Liberal/Progressives can’t control the new media like they did the mMSM, so it must be broken!


23 posted on 03/13/2012 8:24:35 AM PDT by Laserman
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To: RitchieAprile
Actually I think she left him.

There was a story a couple years ago about him going to a hotel and getting massages. Apparently one of the employees complained that he groped her.

24 posted on 03/13/2012 8:25:29 AM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West)
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To: Sub-Driver
"Our democracy plan has been hacked," Gore said, according to CNN. "It no longer works, in the main, to serve the interests of our people Socialism.

Translation: Those pesky Right Wingers keep kicking our azz.

25 posted on 03/13/2012 8:26:29 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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To: Sub-Driver

Notice he said “our people”. I don’t think he was talking about FReepers.


26 posted on 03/13/2012 8:26:43 AM PDT by jeffc (Prayer. It's freedom of speech.)
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To: Sub-Driver
When someone writes a modern version of Charles Mackay’s “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” Al Gore will have a very large chapter. There are many out there who think they can control and use this Mackay phenomena to enrich and empower themselves but in the end the monster of the mob consumes them or their inheritors.
27 posted on 03/13/2012 8:27:17 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
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To: Sub-Driver
He's got that wrong.. his "democracy" has seceded from our Republic.

His "democracy" comes from 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus spoiled brats like himself. These aged punks and their ideological issue are now arguably a dominant part of the Establishment.

Their "democracy" has no use for our Republic and our social contract, freedoms, and inalienable rights.

This is the Democrats' second civil war against our Republic.

28 posted on 03/13/2012 8:30:18 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Actually, it’s a representative republic, Al, you stupid, fat bastard.

And what has been “hacked” is the US federal government, and it has been done by communists such as yourself.


29 posted on 03/13/2012 8:30:50 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Good grief, not this merde again.

Patriots have been “hacking” America since 1776.


30 posted on 03/13/2012 8:31:22 AM PDT by raccoonnookkeeper (I keep raccoons in a nook!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Einsten AL obviously doesn’t know the difference between a constitutional republic and mob rule.


31 posted on 03/13/2012 8:31:28 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Sub-Driver

STFU Al, go find your Dingle Norwood, start with that lockbox.


32 posted on 03/13/2012 8:34:30 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history, 0bama is the yellow stain in front!)
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To: chris37

There are a lot of new things that govt could do with technology...like using data mining to uncover Medicare/Medicaid fraud. Use data to track visas and exits of foreigners visiting the US. Social Security info to identify illegals for deportation. The list goes on..but they won’t do these things which could really make a difference.


33 posted on 03/13/2012 8:34:41 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: xtinct

Nothing hacks me off more than algore.


34 posted on 03/13/2012 8:34:41 AM PDT by refermech
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

I like the part when he says it no longer serves OUR people as opposed to THE people.
Declaration of Independence, any one?


35 posted on 03/13/2012 8:34:51 AM PDT by glyptol
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To: Oldexpat

Their job is no longer to make a difference, their job is to destroy and fundamentally transform.


36 posted on 03/13/2012 8:36:20 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: circlecity
Einsten AL obviously doesn’t know the difference between a constitutional republic and mob rule.

Give Al a break, he has difficulty telling the difference between toast and squirrel poop.
37 posted on 03/13/2012 8:37:18 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: circlecity

Certainly sounds like rhetoric aimed at the mobocracy... whoever can gin up the biggest transient protest wins. Fair plebiscites would, I believe, put Al Gore and his ilk well to shame.


38 posted on 03/13/2012 8:38:16 AM PDT by raccoonnookkeeper (I keep raccoons in a nook!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Mr. propaganda's article can be summed up thusly; the corrupt government establishment is being discussed all over the web and the power elite wants it stopped
39 posted on 03/13/2012 8:39:07 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Sub-Driver

Once again Count Taxula’s sidekick, Algore, has been with Rip Van Winkle. What does he think has happened over the last 20 years? The hacking of the big government wackos and the lapdog media took place in the form of the TEA party, Matt Drudge and Andrew Breitbart. I don’t care if this techn00b doesn’t like that the truth is now accessible to anyone with a computer and a hook up. Go back to sleep Algore.

The NappyOne


40 posted on 03/13/2012 8:40:52 AM PDT by NappyOne
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