Democracy Hijacked
May. 8th, 2017 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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mirabile_dictu for pointing me to this long Guardian / Observer article but it is well worth reading it.
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democrac
“The plan put to the minister was Minority Report. It was pre-crime. And the fact that Cambridge Analytica is now working inside the Pentagon is, I think, absolutely terrifying,”
"Martin Moore of King’s College, London, pointed out that elections were a newly fashionable tool for would-be authoritarian states. “Look at Erdoğan in Turkey. What Theresa May is doing is quite anti-democratic in a way. It’s about enhancing her power very deliberately. It’s not about a battle of policy between two parties.”
Scary stuff.
mirabile_dictu for pointing me to this long Guardian / Observer article but it is well worth reading it.The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democrac
“The plan put to the minister was Minority Report. It was pre-crime. And the fact that Cambridge Analytica is now working inside the Pentagon is, I think, absolutely terrifying,”
"Martin Moore of King’s College, London, pointed out that elections were a newly fashionable tool for would-be authoritarian states. “Look at Erdoğan in Turkey. What Theresa May is doing is quite anti-democratic in a way. It’s about enhancing her power very deliberately. It’s not about a battle of policy between two parties.”
Scary stuff.
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