{"id":6048,"date":"2006-09-03T14:41:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T14:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2006\/09\/online-democracy\/"},"modified":"2006-09-03T14:41:43","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T14:41:43","slug":"online-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/09\/03\/online-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Online &#8220;democracy&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d just like to point out that I don&#8217;t know anybody who might have a legitimate reason to go to the <a title=\"DEFRA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.defra.gov.uk\" target=\"_blank\">DEFRA<\/a> website in the course of their work, who might then be slightly amazed at the arrogance of an <a title=\"DEFRA environment contract wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.defra.gov.uk\/WikiHome\/EnvironmentContract\" target=\"_blank\">online &quot;public consultation&quot;<\/a> (&quot;the citizens\u00a0WILL do this, the citizens WILL do that&quot;) and who might then tip off a <a title=\"Guido\" href=\"http:\/\/5thnovember.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">well-known political website<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, nobody that I know.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: <a title=\"Google News\" href=\"http:\/\/news.google.co.uk\/news?sourceid=mozilla-search&#038;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;tab=wn&#038;ncl=http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/articlePage.aspx%3Farticleid%3D282958%26area%3D\/breaking_news\/other_news\/&#038;hl=en&#038;filter=0\" target=\"_blank\">global media coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d just like to point out that I don&#8217;t know anybody who might have a legitimate reason to go to the DEFRA website in the course of their work, who might then be slightly amazed at the arrogance of an online &quot;public consultation&quot; (&quot;the citizens\u00a0WILL do this, the citizens WILL do that&quot;) and who might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-the-blogosphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}