It appears despite numerous attempts to crowdsource, the British government's idea to include public input in this age of technology keeps hitting setbacks, or rather roadblocks.
One initiative set up by the Treasury was for public suggestions on cutting government spending. The “ideas for cuts” would appear on the site for other users to vote for and comment on. Soon after, a notice was posted stating "the site has been the subject to a small number of malicious attacks so we have unfortunately had to pause on the interactive features for now, but we’re still keen to hear any further ideas you have, which we may publish at a later date."
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How about the coalition government's wiki-powered loony magnet - Your Freedom website - which aimed to collect the Internet's very finest ideas.... like demanding an end to the government conspiracy of silence over communication with aliens. One poster said: "Superior intelligences who exist outside of commonly accepted reality have been observing occasionally interacting with human beings for some time now. We demand that this government stop playing silly buggers with us and tell us everything they know on the subject."
Maybe if the comments were held for moderation!
The Your Freedom website is now closed.
Your Freedom has now closed. We are in the process of archiving the site content to The National Archives however you can view all the material that has already been archived. Once the archiving process is complete, the content of Your Freedom will be available.
The latest attempt is the government's epetitions site... with a promise to debate any issue which secures more than 100,000 votes. There are ten times that many people who believe Elvis is still alive! Maybe raising the bar just a little would eliminate attracting some of the kooks.
Site shows:
e-petitions– create and sign petitions online
Sorry if you're experiencing problems accessing e-petitons. There is currently a much higher level of demand than we expected
Great ideas in a modern age. With some decent site moderation, security, and some better web hosting, true government representation of the people by the people may regain a foothold. Then again we could just send our ideas in an email.... the government is purported to read them!
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