About Poliforum
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How does this site make money?Poliforum is funded solely by its founder and will remain so until it hits 500 verified users. Then, we will take a vote on how to monetize it in order to scale it throughout the world, eventually to every country. There are three methods most websites make money: 1. Advertisements 2. Paid subscriptions and 3. Selling data. 3 will never be an option as this information is and should forever be, your own property, therefore, Poliforum has no right to use it in any way against your wishes.
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How is my data stored and handled?Poliforum is hosted on Wix and uses their servers and privacy policies. Please see below for details.
As an entrepreneur, I became frustrated by the lack of tools or methods available to me to participate in the political arena. I don't have an audience, an enticing policy platform nor do I represent a particular group. I simply wanted:
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A clear and 3rd party database of who I'm asked to vote for.
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To see politicians be held accountable to their promises, to be judged on their objective performance and to have a history of this made available.
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An online forum of verified citizens, people like me, who are concerned about the direction we heading and want to hear what everyone else thinks.
My vision for Poliforum is to create a platform that is true to the fundamental beliefs we all hold as Canadians. Those values are not encoded here, there is no algorithm and no censorship - just value driven decisions that went in to creating each feature. These features cross many domains of public life (government, legislation, economics, business, news and media) just as a conversation would, I feel these conversations should be informed, within context and open to all. This website offers us this new opportunity to take these conversations to all Canadians and develop this body of research together to help align towards a shared vision of a better country, without the influence of outside voices or interests.