4 ms·

It's called constitutional democracy. There should be restraints on the power of even an elected government.

by tus88 7y ago

mrybczyn 7y ago
I support this idea! We should establish one of these.
- tus88 7y ago
  We already did.
  - diffeomorphism 7y ago
    Pretending to misunderstand sarcasm is not all that funny. In case you actually misunderstood the post you are replying to, the point was that these checks are not up to the task (as in "what you are describing sounds much, much better than it works in reality. How nice it would be if it actually were like that")
megous 7y ago
Singapore? Anyway, we have constitutional democaracy where I live, and almost every article is qualified by "unless law tells othervise". Even speech is restricted, you can't say anything you like in TV, it's regulated and has an oversight bureaucracy. It's just made so that law is not targeted at any particular party, but on particular behavior.
ValentineC 7y ago
> There should be restraints on the power of even an elected government. It's times like these that I'm glad Singapore has an open and mostly uncensored internet access policy. As the dominant party in Singapore controls more than two-thirds of parliament [1], they have been able to push through constitutional changes without much consultation [2] — a recent example was the increase in the private-sector requirement for candidates of our Presidency (head of state), and it being reserved for people from a specific ethnic group [3]. Mainstream media in Singapore is highly regulated and mainly spreads the government angle, which leaves the internet as one of the few open platforms for dissenting perspectives to be spread. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Parliament_of_Singapore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Parliament_of_Singapore [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Singapore#Amendment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Singapore#Amen... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_elections_in_Singapore#Qualifications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_elections_in_Sing...

It's called constitutional democracy. There should be restraints on the power of even an elected government.

by tus88 7y ago

It's called constitutional democracy. There should be restraints on the power of even an elected government.

mrybczyn 7y ago

I support this idea! We should establish one of these.

tus88 7y ago
We already did.
- diffeomorphism 7y ago
  Pretending to misunderstand sarcasm is not all that funny. In case you actually misunderstood the post you are replying to, the point was that these checks are not up to the task (as in "what you are describing sounds much, much better than it works in reality. How nice it would be if it actually were like that")

megous 7y ago

Singapore? Anyway, we have constitutional democaracy where I live, and almost every article is qualified by "unless law tells othervise". Even speech is restricted, you can't say anything you like in TV, it's regulated and has an oversight bureaucracy. It's just made so that law is not targeted at any particular party, but on particular behavior.

ValentineC 7y ago

> There should be restraints on the power of even an elected government. It's times like these that I'm glad Singapore has an open and mostly uncensored internet access policy. As the dominant party in Singapore controls more than two-thirds of parliament [1], they have been able to push through constitutional changes without much consultation [2] — a recent example was the increase in the private-sector requirement for candidates of our Presidency (head of state), and it being reserved for people from a specific ethnic group [3]. Mainstream media in Singapore is highly regulated and mainly spreads the government angle, which leaves the internet as one of the few open platforms for dissenting perspectives to be spread. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Parliament_of_Singapore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Parliament_of_Singapore [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Singapore#Amendment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Singapore#Amen... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_elections_in_Singapore#Qualifications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_elections_in_Sing...