Online voting used as a political tool

A claim to have 5,000 people clamouring for someone’s resignation is tantamount to the obscene misuse of modern technology to enliven political rumour.

Is an online petition as legally binding as a physical vote? Who are these invisible signatories, many never having set foot in TT ? At the stroke of an iPhone, from thousands of miles away, online voting can be used to create political mischief. Knowledge is power. This abuse of technology enables this particular aspect of power that corrupts absolutely.

An impressive number of people in TT of diverse ages and social backgrounds are walking about, iPhones in hand, seemingly unable to pocket these little squares of 100 percent entertainment.

Like the ownership of cars, a small minimum wage does not preclude the possession of the most expensive of these instruments.

Used as a mischievous political tool, you can be contacted 24/7 to decide which individual reputation is to be besmirched and deemed crass, ignorant or unpalatable to hold government office. Today, reputation, the accumulation of great wealth and political domination supersede all else. But because TT is comprised of only 1.4 million people, it follows that the illusion of complicity and political agreement must be found using the World Wide Web. We, the easily fooled, believe some of the lies conveyed to us via social media.

Lynette Joseph Diego Martin