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As a Brazilian, I find this initiative to be extremely important.

However, I've recently seen 'democratic' videos urging for a military dictatorship. Millions of Facebook users shared the message and ~1M people protested last sunday, while trying to kick out our president.

So I wonder if, contradictorily, some might exploit DemocracyOS to install anti-democratic regimes.

Is there a way to ensure such thing won't happen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HR9vqx9oTQ

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It's crazy what's happening in Brazil these days, as a close neighbour(Argentinean) it pains me to see such upheaval. To your point, we could set up a protocol that the SaaS version of DemocracyOS can only be used inside the limits of a constitution, but we have no control over the Open Source version. It's like twitter it's a platform for expressing oneself and it's content moderation is v. limited. It's all our responsibility to make the best possible use of the tools we create.

Spot on. I still believe the beauty of the project is that it's open-sourced, so our community of developers would be able to make wiser choices for the country.

Infinitely better than corrupted politicians.

For sure! Being Open Source it's fundamental to the spirit and vision of DemocracyOS.

Check the implementation of DemocracyOS done here: http://euvoto.org

>However, I've recently seen 'democratic' videos urging for a military dictatorship.

How is that democratic, or even 'democratic'?

So, let's all ignore all the crimes she made. Great idea.

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