Former US Vice President Al Gore believes democracy has been hacked and called on the Internet to change what he claimed to be a no-longer functional US government. The politician-turned-activist was having a conversation with Sean Parker, the co-founder of the defunct file-sharing site Napster, at the South by Southwest Conference Festival. The discussion was watched by a large audience and broadcast via the Internet. Gore called on the audience to create a new ‘Occupy Democracy’ movement and pushed for the creation of new social media and digital tools. Parker noted that the Internet was on the brink of new capabilities that make electioneering less likely to be dominated by television.