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I would love a Genius.com / annotation layer on top of these bills too. Just a dream I'm sharing out loud for no particular reason :) love govtrack in general otherwise!

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Without commenting on the merits of that idea, I'll just say that I do not want to be the one who has to moderate user generated content.

Only if it is shared annotations is it a problem.

It need not be shared , think more like a public notion/ share point document with comments visible . I.e experts(users) can create their own individual annotated versions and share with others .

As long as there is no single version of the annotations , moderation is not needed

I think the issue is that a person reading without an interlocutor has a better chance of getting some truth from the sum of the bill than reading with an “expert” bent on swaying them towards a fringe interpretation or even directly lying to distort the content. The feature lets them put on an air of factuality but really just inveigle people with a chopped take on a document.

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