That changed when, in 2010, the District of Columbia announced its intention to launch a citywide
Internet voting platform, intended for overseas voters and a milestone for the concept.
Not exact matches
Beyond financial applications, any environments where trust, security, and permanence are important — for instance, asset - registries,
voting, governance, and the
internet of things — could be massively impacted by the Ethereum
platform.
Americans Elect, a Washington, D.C. - based nonprofit has registered as a political party in Alaska, Arizona and 13 other states with a
platform that advocates
Internet - based
voting.
The Federal Communications Commission last week
voted to end net neutrality, the set of rules in place since 2015 to maintain the
internet as a free and neutral
platform on which all websites are treated the same.
The U.S. Senate just
voted 97 - 2 to pass the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), a bill that silences online speech by forcing
Internet platforms to censor their users.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the
platform took down 270 accounts and pages that originated from the
Internet Research Agency, the Russian «troll factory» that is said to be responsible for interfering in foreign elections, including the 2016 presidential
vote in the United States.
According to one expert who researches how
internet platforms influence
voting behavior, it's extremely unlikely Cambridge Analytica's activities on Facebook impacted the outcome of the election more than Google's
platform was exploited to support Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.