January 2013
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Democracy is a current issue. Democracy is very differently demanded from very different countries and places. But in this requirement a new tool has been used in the political struggle: the network. This intervention gives an exceptional visibility to movements that, otherwise, would not have achieved. This fact has led to the emergence of a double-myth: 1. That the Internet is somehow a guarantee of democracy; 2. That the network allows the direct and illustrated participation of the majority of the population. However, the movements that have proliferated in the early months of 2011 show that the future of democracy is played in a real terrain, where the inequality in the distribution of resources, the economic exploitation and the ideological domination is imposed on forgotten demos.