Polish PM Dismisses Online Voters As Porn-Watching Beer Swillers
Jaroslaw Kaczynski has, shall we say, an aversion to technology and those who use it. The former Prime Minister of Poland and current opposition leader has drawn attention to himself with a barrage of pointed opinions regarding online voting.In a quote from his political party's Web site, Kaczynski believes that online voting should be a non-option for Poles because the Internet is for people that watch "pornography while sipping beer." Kaczynski elaborated on his distrust of Internet users, saying: "I am not an enthusiast of a young person sitting in front of a computer, watching video clips and pornography while sipping a bottle of beer and voting when he feels like it." As if further clarification was needed, he adds that Internet users are simply "the easiest group to manipulate, to suggest who to vote for."
The premise that a large contingent of internet users is of the beer-swilling, porn-addicted variety is not a new one. To imply that such a contingent should be somehow cleansed from the voting process, well, that's just crazy talk.
We are sure Kaczynski, in all his repressed rage, has sipped a glass of expensive wine while slowly reading a steamy work of fiction. In all fairness, we shouldn't be too hard on the man since he's never claimed to be tech-savvy. He doesn't use a cell phone or have a bank account, and his can only assume that his carriage has been in the shop for weeks (we're kidding about the last part, but the first two are true).
There are definitely potential drawbacks to online voting -- stability, security, among others -- but the character of those who have the capability to vote online (i.e. a very large amount of people) is not one of the more important ones.
From Reuters
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