You could argue that parliaments are a small elite population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representat

You could argue that parliaments are a small elite population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy This is what we mean when we use the word "democracy" today, unless you live in ancient Greece or some small village. So having experts on technology,security and privacy being overruled by an uneducated mob is madness, not democracy.