A Virtual/online Government?

[San Lumen]

isnt this like already a thing

(On the other hand, certain types of meetings *are* far more effective conducted in person, like I'd say 100-fold returns type of effectiveness. I guess we'll just see a technical government where people increasingly do whatever they want

No it’s not a thing. Most government businesses is conducted in person as it should be.

[The Astral Mandate]

I think Estonia is doing that

reform (squirrel) party moment

[Inner Albania]

Also, as an addendum to what I said in an earlier post:

There have been attempts at a virtual/online government. And there have been incidents where the Zoom meetings of such governments have been bombed with inappropriate content, e.g the Italian Senate meeting or the Young Thug trial.

[El Lazaro]

I think Estonia is doing that

Can you provide a source of this?

Source: the government and entire adult population of Estonia

[The Astral Mandate]

Can you provide a source of this?

Source: the government and entire adult population of Estonia

A certain squirrel told me about this.

[El Lazaro]

Can you provide a source of this?

Source: the government and entire adult population of Estonia

Nvm, I thought this was the voting thread. The major exceptions to Estonia’s government being entirely online are the elected government and the military still existing in-person because doing otherwise would be dumb, add no utility, and pose a serious challenge to national security/function of government.

[Ethel mermania]

Source: the government and entire adult population of Estonia

A certain squirrel told me about this.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/imag ... w&usqp=CAU

[Florenville]

I'm sure nothing bad is going to come out of having an online government.
I'm sure they'll be as effective as online classes... right?!

[Countesia]

What if my wifi goes down?

[Shrillland]

What if my wifi goes down?

That's one reason I'm opposed to an entirely virtual government. The other is the security issue that others have already explained, the third is that, because fast and reliable internet isn't available everywhere, it will add fuel to the already existing skip fires of certain relation, particularly poorer and more rural constituencies, who, through no fault of their own, could be shut out of the process altogether for periods of time just because telecom companies didn't think it profitable to upgrade internet connections in their area.

[Hauthamatra]

This is an idea that was proposed and briefly discussed in the American politics thread and I thought it was worthy of its own thread.

The idea is simple. The government no longer conducts business in person. All committee meetings and legislative sessions are now via zoom and the buildings that used to be their offices and that of government officials are no longer used as they are all mostly remote.
One argument that was made in favor was it makes government more accessible yet anyone can call and write to their representatives. Most committee meetings and legislative sessions can be viewed online in some countries and committee meetings can be called into so is this really needed?

I’m not sure what I think of this idea. It could technically work but is this something we really want?

Your thoughts?

Didn't some large ocean state(small Pacific Island chain) already say it was making it's nation in VR due to rising sea levels?

Edit: It is Tuvalu who is doing that.

[San Lumen]

What if my wifi goes down?

There is another issue with this.

[The Holy Machine]

This is an idea that was proposed and briefly discussed in the American politics thread and I thought it was worthy of its own thread.

The idea is simple. The government no longer conducts business in person. All committee meetings and legislative sessions are now via zoom and the buildings that used to be their offices and that of government officials are no longer used as they are all mostly remote.
One argument that was made in favor was it makes government more accessible yet anyone can call and write to their representatives. Most committee meetings and legislative sessions can be viewed online in some countries and committee meetings can be called into so is this really needed?

I’m not sure what I think of this idea. It could technically work but is this something we really want?

Your thoughts?

Didn't some large ocean state(small Pacific Island chain) already say it was making it's nation in VR due to rising sea levels?

Edit: It is Tuvalu who is doing that.

Don't you need actual territory to be counted as a nation?

[Juansonia]

Didn't some large ocean state(small Pacific Island chain) already say it was making it's nation in VR due to rising sea levels?

Edit: It is Tuvalu who is doing that.

Don't you need actual territory to be counted as a nation?

That's one of the requirements for the declarative theory of statehood, but "territory' could be stretched to include arcologies or floating structures.

The comparative theory is just a pyramid scheme, avoid it at all costs.

[Saiwana]

" The Cloud," is just someone else's PC/Server/Network. You're out of luck if you have any single point of failure if the troubleshooting required to get it fixed, needs more than just you on your end.

[Nilokeras]

I support it because government officials should be forced to show us the inside of their homes via Zoom backgrounds so we can humiliate them for their decor and/or the various times they have twinks undressing in the background, take a shower or otherwise show their entire dicks and balls to a parliamentary subcommittee by accident

[El Lazaro]

I support it because government officials should be forced to show us […] the various times they have twinks undressing in the background, take a shower or otherwise show their entire dicks and balls[!]

This is the future the Radical Left Antifa-Dems want.

[Uiiop]

isn't the maldives trying this out now that their country is sinking into the ocean?

New climate solution: evacuate the population to the metaverse and use the rising seawater to cool all the servers

This isn't THAT far off from Musk's simulationist tendencies.

He's genuinely deluded enough to believe he's going to find the universal source code from ChatGPT and honesty an matrix under his leader wouldn't be that bad for him. We' can just be robots on mars after all.