Internet and Politics

[liowkc]

Politicians are jumping on to Internet bandwagon. Even the new Russian president Medvedev is tech savvy.

What do you think are the impact of internet on poliitical participation?

[Llamalord]

Its bad, next thing we know Gorden Brown will have a blog / facebook with loads of widgets / applications which mean nothing all for a lie! Plus they seem to blame the internet for alot too

[hwang]

Yeah, even politicians now create their own blog for their campaign. Hmmm...what better way than through blogs to get personal with the people.

[titaniumhijau]

Yap. Its normal and hard to avoid it. Even my blog always talk about politic. Many people love to know about that and its another trick to bring more visitor to your site.

[liowkc]

My take is that politicians have the right to blog what they like, just like us ordinary citizens. Anyway the standard of political discourse are low whether politicians join in the fray or not.

[hwang]

Well, it's the new age whereby blog rules. Years ago, blogs are just something like personal diary but today it can be just about anything and can even serve different purpose and objective.

[liowkc]

But I guess most blogs (political ones included) are not worth a read or paying much attention to. Sometimes, I just feel that the internet is just a big trash can

[hwang]

Nah...It's how you look at it. There's always the ugly and also the bright side. It's just that there are unscrupulous people that misuse the power of internet.

[liowkc]

I guess the internet just make every thing easier, easier to con people and easier to get conned - the new wild wild west

[titaniumhijau]

Haha. Yap. At my country, blogger and politic are hot issue. Sometimes its because dangerous. But i still believe blogger and politics still cannot seperate todays. Its becomes interesting right?

[the_raven_group]

The internet offers a politican access to a wide audience base. Getting your message across to as many people as possible is extremely important in politics as in business. The use of the internet also increases your access to potential money via fund raising.

[liowkc]

You are right. Obama had demonstrated the power of internet very well and this may be one reason he won against Clinton in the primary contest.

[the_raven_group]

Wasnt it demonstarted in 2004 by that crazy democrat who made the really scary speech along the lines of "we gonna take back the White House yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee", can't remember his name for the live of me. Was it Howard Dean?

We should never have even been close to becoming a candidate and would not have had it not beenfor the power of internet fund raising!

[liowkc]

Yes that was Howard Dean making his famous scream. As like all tools, the internet is a double-edged sword in politics and all other matters.