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from the what-will-the-wikipedia-article-say? dept.
Founder of Wikipedia Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales is now the Committee Chairman for Lawrence Lessig's campaign to become the Democratic nominee for President of the United States:
"Larry's run for President is different," said Wales, who founded the free-access, free-content encyclopedia in the early 2000s. "He's crowdfunding his campaign instead of seeking out rich donors. He's showing people that we can change the rigged political system."
Both long-time supporters of Internet freedom, Wales and Lessig have stood side by side on previous issues, most notably in opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2012. Wales' day-long Wikipedia blackout protesting SOPA influenced other major Internet players to follow suit and is credited with helping to sink the legislation.
"I'm deeply grateful for Jimmy's support," said Lessig. "We both believe in the power of the people to push back against special interests. He's a valuable player in this fight to end the corrupting role of money in politics once and for all."
"The Internet community came together to fight back against SOPA and we were successful." Wales said. "Now we're behind Lessig to fight for citizen equality. When you light up the Internet, anything is possible."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @06:12PM
Even though Ralph lost, it was worth it, to send the two parties a message.
That worked out real well, didn't it?
The implication is that Nader 'stole' enough votes away from the democrats to enable a republican win. Even if you ignore the role of the supreme court, that is just bad math.
In Florida, after the final vote tally, Bush beat Gore by 543 votes. That margin is less than the number of votes that even the last popular 3rd party candidate got - i.e. the Socialist Party got 622, and the Reform Party got 17.5K. Do you blame them too?
What is really telling is that Nader got just 98K votes, which is nothing compared to the nearly 3,000,000 registered Florida democrats who didn't even vote at all. When 50% of the party doesn't even give enough of a shit to show up, blaming the %2 who were energized by an outsider candidate is sticking your head in the sand.