Ageism in the Manifesto

[alberreman]

I'm not sure if this is intentional; I'd like to offer the benefit of the doubt here, but the following section in the Manifesto gives the impression of an ageist bias, and I can find no other obvious reason for the tone. It's as if the fact that older people would be excluded from digital democracy is a non issue, or even a good thing.

Even in regions where internet penetration is below 50%, the digital gap is not based on socio-economic factors but it is rather a generational divide. According to Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Pirate Party: “Politics moves at glacial speeds: nothing seems to happen until suddenly a strenuous noise gets everyone's attention. It is slow because it often takes one generation to die for the next one to take over. And today we live in a world that has the offline generation in charge and the online generation growing up.