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The way to avoid this is vigorously campaigning for better representatives, removing the sellouts from office
by losteric 9y ago
The way to avoid this is vigorously campaigning for better representatives, removing the sellouts from office
- drieddust 9y agoAbsolutely but for some reason American are more interested in "keeping the markets regulation free". Natural monopolies like telecom need to be heavily regulated.
- aaronbrethorst 9y agoBecause they’ve been sold a bill of goods by people like the Koch brothers. https://www.npr.org/2016/01/19/463565987/hidden-history-of-koch-brothers-traces-their-childhood-and-political-rise https://www.npr.org/2016/01/19/463565987/hidden-history-of-k...
- animex 9y agoThis will never happen because the education system of America has been dumbed-down on purpose so the elites control the government through subversion via advertising and lobbying/donations. I'm a big fan of Lawrence Lessig's idea: https://vimeo.com/76349568 https://vimeo.com/76349568 https://www.rootstrikers.org https://www.rootstrikers.org How you'll get any group of morally bankrupt politicians to vote for such a statute is unfathomable. Canada had it briefly but the big parties nixed it as soon as they got into power. They didn't like the idea that 3rd and 4th tier parties could actually earn money from votes and actually start to chip away at this 2-party flip-flopping that we have every 8-12 years.
- sgroppino 9y agoOr competition between ISPs?