Honestly, which is worse having one political power with the ability to spam the net? Or having a world with that ability. Personally, I'm thinking the world is the better option, but we'd never find a real article again with search.

The tech team behind the 2012 Obama campaign has probably received more attention than any political programmers in history. A so-called "dream team of engineers from Facebook, Google and Twitter [who] built the software that drove Barack Obama’s reelection" were extolled in the press for bringing Silicon Valley strategies like Agile development to the normally hidebound process of a political campaign. In the post mortems that followed Obama’s victory, many credited the superiority of the Democrats’ tech team and its famous Narwhal platform, in contrast to the failure of Mitt Romney’s digital efforts, with mobilizing the vote and winning crucial swing states.

 As Obama heads back to office, a battle rages over the tech that got him reelected | The Verge