by Tan Copsey
Oh God.
After a day in which there were honest to goodness serious conversations about the effect of the information society on democracy, this happens. No longer will the first presidential primary be held in New Hampshire. ‘What’s that’ you say ‘it’s moved to Iowa?’ – alas no, instead Presidential candidates will now first duke it out for the all important Myspace vote.
Myspace President Tom Andersen (you know the guy it took you ages to realise wasn’t really your friend, but the B$%^rd who ran the thing) proclaimed his new found political power, triumphantly declaring that ‘Iowa and New Hampshire may be selecting delegates, but the MySpace vote will be the first test of where candidates stand in the election year’.
And now a lot of people are angry. They are claiming this trivialises democracy, they are noting that it’s bloody easy to set up multiple accounts on Myspace, they are listening to Hillary Clinton’s newly formed Emo supergroup who sing songs about cancer. The more sensible among them are just asking for it to be on Facebook – though would you let this man vote? – actually wait that’s my neighbours cat, he can’t vote he’s French.
Still, if it gets the yoof to vote for Mad Mormon Mitt and allows Rupert Murdoch an entirely new way to rig elections (he owns Myspace sucka) it can’t be all bad…right?
