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Craig of Craigslist fame has posted a short entry on his blog about how he thinks that we can save democracy using our TiVo or any DVR / PVR. He apparently had this flash of brilliance while watching The West Wing and reading about how Congress spends more time raising money for re-election TV commercials than actually working.

Craig’s theory is that if everyone with a DVR (TiVo, ReplayTV, etc.) were to fast forward through all TV commercials and completely stop watching TV commercials, Congress might actually do some work! This is based on the assumption that it will be very difficult to replace TV re-election ads for politicians with something that is actually part of a TV show, such as product placement.

This sounds like an interesting theory, but I don’t know if it would actually work. Politicians are a pretty crafty bunch and will most likely figure out a way around this plan. I can just see it now — instead of the stupid Ford ads that we have on American Idol now, we’ll have Hillary Clinton in the Red Room with Ryan Seacrest interviewing the American Idol Top Ten while she campaigns for President.

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