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U.K. Treasury Pulls Interactive Site Due to Bizarre User Suggestions, Racist Rants

Share What began as a noble British endeavor has just come down in an inglorious blaze of abuse. As Reuters reports, the U.K.'s Treasury has decided to pull its interactive 'Spending Challenge' website, after users smeared the site with weird suggestions and tirades against ethnic minorities. The challenge, which was put in place by finance minister George Osborne, was created with the intent of ...

GOP's YouCut Site Lets You Vote to Nix Welfare, Health-Care or Frivolous Spending

Last week, we reported that the GOP planned to hand off the responsibility of developing a party platform to its rank-and-file (and Web-connected) members. Now Republican Whip Eric Cantor is climbing aboard the participatory government train with YouCut. The premise is simple: visitors are presented with a list of government programs that are viewed by the Republican party as wasteful. Anyone ...