Centralized vs Decentralized Platform for Political or Public Influence

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Centralized vs DecentralizedPlatform for
Political or Public Influence
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Centralized vs Decentralized Platform

• Once hyped as the tool that would free the people
  from dictatorship by providing all with a
  platform to air their opinion and organize
  resistance, Facebooks appearance in the News
  lately has, increasingly often, been linked with
  breaches of privacy, with the wholesale
  distribution of fake news or as a tool used to
  exert undue foreign or domestic influence on
  democratic elections.

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Centralized vs Decentralized Platform for
Political or Public Influence

• Though Facebook statistics are routinely used to
  measure participation and vote intentions, as
  well as a channel to influence politics, its
  reliability for such purposes is questionable.
  Transparency and privacy issues coupled with the
  determinedly profit based model of Facebook does
  not make it a reliably neutral vehicle for
  opinions.

• Facebook algorithms and general disregard for its
  users is far from the only factor behind voters
  disengagement in most democracies today. Many
  potential voters, especially young people, do not
  believe that they can influence their elected
  leaders decisions anymore and democracies are
  increasingly suffering from dropping voting rates.

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• . In short, what is needed is a neutral,
  transparent and secure platform that will reopen
  the channels of communication between leaders and
  their people, ideally providing an integrated way
  to monitor the leaders behaviour in real time,
  or even a way to hold them accountable and have
  built-in sanctions for leaders who breach the
  contract they took with their people when
  acceding to a position of people based on
  elections.

• According to Forbes blockchain might be able to
  create exactly that. Coalichain for example,
  offers the solution everyone is looking for a
  decentralized, transparent platform for social
  politics and democratic networking, where users
  accounts are verified, and where polls and
  surveys can give us a true, untainted picture of
  the current political climate.

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When users are verified, and their actions are
limited to their rate of participation, we might
see a new breed of democracy grow and prosper.
One that will not be fueled by cash and backroom
deals, but by active participation and merit of
the platforms users. One where fundraising is
transparent and enables all interested parties to
see whether wannabe leaders are receiving large
amounts from a few donors or small amounts from a
multitude of donors.
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• When a secure, transparent and incorruptible
  platform is available, potential genuine leaders
  currently staying far away from the centers of
  power to safely maintain their integrity will
  hopefully consider entering the melee and restore
  trust in the leadership.

• True Leaders will emerge, leaders motivated by
  promoting the common good. Leaders who, driven by
  the genuine and verified support of their voters,
  can galvanize, inspire and and truly lead.