[LINK] Electioneering

[Daniel Rose]

Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 15/10/07 3:47 PM, "Craig Sanders" <cas at taz.net.au> wrote:
>> in short, organised advertising creeps benefit from the new technology
>> at least as much as ordinary citizens...and probably a LOT more as they
>> have the finances and resources to throw at it.
> 
> Isn't "organised advertising" just [groups of] "ordinary citizens"?
> 
> At what point does a group of people stop being "friends helping each other,
> because they share a common aim" and becomes "organised political activity"?
> 

I my book it's when the individuals concerned make a profit (or a wage) as opposed to the activity being a cost to the people in terms of time and resources.