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"Donating to Democracy" using MMORPGs
siji
Member Posts: 16
Stubmled across this post (http://www.gorgeousgamers.com/?do=myblogs&act=viewall&id=2619) about a gaming company allowing people to donate to a voter registration organization through MMORPGs. Sell your game gold to them, they then make a donation based on the dollar value of that currency.
I know that companies soliciting donations from customers on behalf of candidates is illegal, but what about this?
Seems like an indirect way to support Obama to me...
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He can do no wrong " Nothing to see here , move along" comes to mind.
Funny, I didn't see a list of games or the authorization from those games to break their EULAs against virtual currency trading.
You can't donate to democracy it is simply not possible other than to give like every person in a country a fixed and equal amount, or to sacriface your personal time and or life to the cause of progressing it. Giving money to either US canidate would be in the most donating to a republic and still it would not be in reality as you are just giving money to a certian dude.
So the basis and in every which other way this concept is flawed.
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one ..." - Thomas Paine
After reading the blog, I don't see anything wrong with this.
They want to donate money to Rock the Vote-which is an initiative to get more people to register to vote. More people need to be involved in our democratic process, and everyone that is of age and right in mind should be voting.
Just another gold selling scam. What do you think they do with the donated gold.
Rubbish.
Voter registration organizations are not necessary. If a citizen does not care enough to register themselves then they don't deserve to vote. O have never missed and election and I didn't need Hollywood or music celebrities to talk me into it.
I'll go further than that. If they can't motivate themselves to vote I don't want them voting at all.
I haven't missed one yet either
but im not opposed to these types of organizations, either.
Sometimes people just need motivation, especially 18 year olds, and there is nothing wrong with motivating them.