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Re: [ga] Re: [ga-full] Use of "loon"



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Interesting to see someone talk about Tyranny of the Majority, because that's
whats being setup for the so called "IDNO" contituency, who can vote out anyone
the 50% +1 do not like or agree with.

On 17-Feb-2000 Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
> Tyranny of the majority.   How to silence dissent. 
> That would suffice to get even me to leave the list.  (Not to mention all
> the noise traffic it would generate).
> 
> The point of protecting dissenting voices is exactly that they are
> unpopular.  Popular voices don't require protection.
> 
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Alex Kamantauskas wrote:
> 
>> 
>>  How about the following process:
>> 
>>  SAA receives a complaint.  SAA announces the complaint, and issues a
>>  request wherein each member of the list (if they so wish) sends in a
>>  'yea' or 'nay' vote.  At the end of an established period (say, 24 or 48
>>  hours), SAA counts the votes.  If the 'yea' outweigh the 'nay', sanctions
>>  are imposed.
>> 
> 
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