I upvoted you but I think you may be discounting "reinventing in a negative or ineffective manner" as potential outcomes.
The comparison to Wordpress is certainly frightening when one considers the ramifications of failures in security or anonymity. The whole article is rather breathless and trite:
"must sign up using a national ID card and a second piece of identification (early plans to use Facebook as a means of authenticating users’ identities were dropped over concerns about making the platform overly reliant on a U.S. tech firm). And how a person votes on the platform is not secret."
The comparison to Wordpress is certainly frightening when one considers the ramifications of failures in security or anonymity. The whole article is rather breathless and trite:
"must sign up using a national ID card and a second piece of identification (early plans to use Facebook as a means of authenticating users’ identities were dropped over concerns about making the platform overly reliant on a U.S. tech firm). And how a person votes on the platform is not secret."