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That doesn't really follow. People vote for who is in elected office and for some judges. Elected officials also have to re-earn their job every 2-6 years, or
by dfxm12 6y ago
That doesn't really follow.
People vote for who is in elected office and for some judges. Elected officials also have to re-earn their job every 2-6 years, or thereabouts.
People have no say in who runs a private media company or how.
- _greim_ 6y agoThe populace has different levers for different controllers. Votes for politicians and dollars for private firms. In both cases the lever is imperfect and we don't always get optimal results.
- newen 6y agoThey don't get any say once local monopolies happen, which is the case with broadband for most areas in the US.
- adamsea 6y ago“The populace” doesn’t really have dollars as leverage for private firms. Certainly not in a fashion similar to voting, however imperfect voting may be. Especially not for monopolies. Plus, as folks in tech from the days of IBM/Microsoft dominance can attest to, simply having multiple options doesn’t necessarily create the same kind of level playing field that we (imperfectly) inspire to in the electoral process. Plus of course there are the non-customers of said private firm, who, in the case of massive companies like Amazon, Google, telecoms, etc. While with voting the only barrier is (ideally) being a citizen of voting age.