"Anyway...we have that system. It exists. And suddenly we thought: Wait. What are we saying here? What have we made? Have we made the most democratic network in the world, or have we just reduced law and government to the level of a talent show? And: what if someone were able to get around our privacy safeguards? What would that data be worth, and how could you use it? Almost all the good secondary value you can get out of mass polling requires to some extent that you know who voted for what, and a lot of people would be fine with that because it’s only the disempowered who need to be able to hide themselves.