> The main reason it isn't illegal is the people who have been in charge of the Federal government are too old to understand computers. But this is a self-reso

> The main reason it isn't illegal is the people who have been in charge of the Federal government are too old to understand computers. But this is a self-resolving problem. Eventually the older generation will just... you know... die off... The more problematic thing is the whole lobbying situation where money is doing the talking. Consumers in general don't have nearly enough money to be viable as political pressure. What really needs to happen is for consumers to be on comparable footing with industry lobbies in terms of political say, and clearly just relying on voting is not cutting it, since you often have cases where all the candidates are different kinds of bad just backed by different lobbies...