Mount Vernon Statement: A Fake Hitler Outdid Conservatives Online
The Symbolism was important. The document was called the Mount Vernon Statement, Recalling the home of George Washington. "We recommit ourselves to the ideas of the American Founding," it began. Even the website was Designed to look like parchment.
But when the group invited Americans Thurs sign the document online - complete with signatures and cursiva a graphic Quill - participatory democracy broke down in the face of the no-rules the Internet.
For a time, it appeared that the statement's first signer was Adolph Hitler, or at least someone Referencing the German dictator while misspelling his first name. "Joe Dufus" got in his digital John Hancock and so did another would-be Prankster, The American Prospect reported.Read More Story,http://www.csmonitor.com/Money/new-economy/2010/0218/Mount-Vernon-Statement-A-fake-Hitler-outdid-conservatives-online
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