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    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 11 19:12:46 2024
    A General Services Administration spox tells NPR that as of 11 a.m. ET
    today there have been 306,422 visitors to http://vote.gov referred
    from Taylor Swifts's URL she shared on Instagram last night

    https://x.com/ElenaMMoore/status/1833936170301960507

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Sep 12 09:50:50 2024
    On Wed, 11 Sep 2024, JAB wrote:

    A General Services Administration spox tells NPR that as of 11 a.m. ET
    today there have been 306,422 visitors to http://vote.gov referred
    from Taylor Swifts's URL she shared on Instagram last night

    https://x.com/ElenaMMoore/status/1833936170301960507


    That's shady. I would not want my governments web site to release figures
    about what type of people visit voting web sites. I'd like all voting data
    to be as private as possible in these times of polarization and
    persecution.

    On the other hand... I don't vote, so at the end of the day, I'm ok. ;)

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Sep 12 06:54:12 2024
    On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:50:50 +0200, D <[email protected]> wrote:

    That's shady. I would not want my governments web site to release figures >about what type of people visit voting web sites.

    Without transparency, a government may become cloaked in darkness.

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Sep 12 19:07:53 2024
    On Thu, 12 Sep 2024, JAB wrote:

    On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:50:50 +0200, D <[email protected]> wrote:

    That's shady. I would not want my governments web site to release figures
    about what type of people visit voting web sites.

    Without transparency, a government may become cloaked in darkness.


    True, but I would not want the government to be transparent about who
    votes for which party. With some things, transparency can become a great
    entry path to authoritarianism.

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