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Social media is good but not optimal for democracy

15 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Jillian C. York explores the dual nature of social media platforms, which have both empowered marginalized communities and enabled the spread of harmful ideologies. Initially celebrated as democratizing tools, these platforms now face criticism...

Doubths on fair voting happening in Indian elections with voting systems being vulnerable to exploitation

29 Mar 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Greenchic

  Source EVM terminology during this time of the 2024 Central Government General Election season alludes to “Electoral Voting Machines”. As a Web3 person, I tend to link EVMs with “Ethereum Virtual Machines”, that’s why I am clarifying this point fo...

Should Citizens trust an EMV machine to record their votes truthfully when its source code remains unaudited?

21 Mar 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Greenchic

  Source India’s main elections are commencing next month with the world’s largest country by population going to cast their votes to cumulatively determine the party that would come to power at the center. This will also determine the Prime Ministe...

Introducing "Predictive Liquid Democracy"

26 Apr 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

My intellectual friend Loke Hagberg, creator of the Digital Demoracy NGO in Sweden, has, together with Samuel Färdow Kazen, written a publication about Predictive Liquid Democracy. Their work focuses on ideas and proposals about how liquid democracy...

App, votes, manipulation in Indonesia

29 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

The Indonesian election commission introduced an app named Sirekap to expedite vote counts and ensure transparency in the massive 2024 election. Sirekap, designed for Android devices, allows officials to photograph result sheets, known as C1 forms an...

Similarities between liquid democracy and Walter Lippman’s criticism of representative democracy

9 Apr 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

Recently, I wrote an article about Walter Lippman’s opinions and arguments about democracy. Due to my work with ideas of liquid democracy, I think there are several similarities and patterns between Lippman’s criticism from the 1920s and modern...

How democracies die from the inside

18 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Professor Jesper Stroembaeck, famous for writing about media and democracy in Sweden, recently wrote in the daily progressive Dagens Arena (Today’s Arena) how internal threats to democracy are often led by elected leaders who gradually erode dem...

Notes about the recent local elections in Bosnia & Herzegovina

21 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR: The upcoming 2024 local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina face serious concerns, including voter fraud, democratic deficits, political manipulation, and foreign interference. With key races in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, and Mostar, these elections...

Summer houses, Germans and Astrid Lindgren - Thirty Years of Sweden in the EU

8 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

    In a recent reflection on Sweden's 30-year EU membership, Andreas Johansson Heinö, one of Sweden's leading liberal opinion makers and a member of the market-liberal think tank Timbro, highlights the significance of the 1994 referendum. Heinö desc...

Elon Musk's "free speech for my right-wing bros" politics

5 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR An article by Hugo Bueno for The Unpopulist critiques Elon Musk’s inconsistent commitment to free speech, focusing on his handling of censorship orders in Brazil. Musk resisted Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ orders to suspend accounts s...