Democracy : More Than Voting & Why eAustralia Isn't One

Day 579, 04:30 • Published in Australia Ukraine • by Australian Warlord

It's claimed that a democracy is the right to vote. But I ask you, is China a democracy? Is Zimbabwe a democracy? Was the USSR a democracy?

Democracy is much more than voting & eAustralia today isn't a democracy. It has more in common with China, Zimbabwe etc than it does with a the RL democratic countries most of us live in.

In countries like China, there's a regime of sensorship. Articles that don't conform with the government &/or articles by certain people are sensored. On the eAustralian forum, articles that don't conform &/or articles by certain people are edited or deleted.

In countries like Russia, it's demanded that everybody conforms with the government. People that are deemed not to conform can expect to be oppressed. In eAustralia, the eGovernment also demands conformity. According to the eAustralian government, all congress members are expected to accept the eGovernment's views. Particularly elected congress members who express a will of their own are deemed to be enemy identities.

In countries like Zimbabwe (& Pakistan under the previous administration) you have the government undertaking actions against people, it being ruled illegal & then the government getting around it to get their way. In Pakistan, the government merely sacked judges that ruled government actions unconstitutional, in Zimbabwe the government merely proceeded with it's actions & declared it couldn't be opposed. In eAustralia, we've seen the Zimbabwe option. For instance in the eAustralian forum, the eGovernments senate speaker (Preditorian) placed numerous bans which the the senate voted against. After numerous votes against the actions, Preditorian & the eAustralian government merely declared that the eAustralian senate couldn't vote against bans against congress members.

In countries such as Russia (& many Asian countries), people who don't conform with the government simply face bans &/or declared criminals. They face showtrials where evidence against them is forged & they're banned from positions in the country. In eAustralia we see similar actions. In addition to that above, players have been banned from the eAustralian chatroom & we saw the forging of evidence in the eAustralian senate forum in a attempt to legitimize bans.
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Democracy is much more than the process of voting. It's about people being free from oppression (particularly poiltical oppression) & being free to express a viewpoint contrary to the government & not be forged into conformity.
Many of the players here complain about the authoritian nature of the previous Howard & Bush governments. Neither governments would have even dared dream of undertaking the kind of actions we see in eAustralia. There's voting in countries like China & Zimbabwe. Niether one can be called a democracy. In eNation that undertakes similar activities can hardly be classified as a democracy either. I say that those who criticise Howard & Bush yet engage in activities that they'd never even dream of doing show their hypocritical true colours against the every concepts of democracy.