Reply #16: You mean democracy? [View All]

I've been threatened with banning for walking in this subject, so i'll be very eggshell on this.

The brand "democraticunderground" is worth more than anything, as if it were free-speech.com,
then it wouldn't have the party connection, the poltiical opposition to neoconism as its framing.
This is theirs for being entrepreneurial, and we're all thankful in that sense. But democrat is
a word that belongs to a party. That party, if it were unhappy with democratic underground, could
force skinner to drop the apparent link, and the board would diminish. In that sense, there is
an exogenous brand that is gifted to du inc., one that IS nationalized.

But nationalized is maybe not the right word if we're looking at governance, rather the word
"liberty" in is classical meaning as "participation in government". You feel powerless to control
something in a benign dictatorship, as you have no liberty. Many people have done a patrick henry
and left the board for this. I do belive the best redress is through the democratic party, but
as they are a corporate party, selling "our own thoughts back to us" is 'oh hum'. So then
does the progressive caucus need to feel it has no political voice in how it is imaged. And here,
skinner has really been an outstanding benign emperor.

But does he answer to the democratic party? Does the pressive caucus support google inc?

If DU were a democracy, then it would have 1 voting share per member, and an editorial judicial system,
that censorship is done transparently. It would have elections.... but to do this, in law with
shares in a privately held company is difficult, as issuing more than so many shares changes the
companies tax complexity significantly, and money money starts to go to lawyers and fancy
governance gear... when in the end, we'd probably re-elect skinner as king... (but we might fire google,
this much i do sympathize, that the owners of the IPR would protect it and frame it carefully)