Asking your government to change the laws when your government has shown you have no power over it is a waste of time. There's a growing intellectual understan

Asking your government to change the laws when your government has shown you have no power over it is a waste of time. There's a growing intellectual understanding that corporations control the governmental processes from start to finish. Therefore, asking the government to change is stupid. If the King rules your country, petition the King for mercy. If an oligarch rules your country, petition the oligarch for mercy. If a corporate elite rules your country, petition the corporate elite. Democracy is, quite simply, completely dead. Gone. Done. The government does not institute change based on democratic opinion. You have no control over your government. They aren't the real seat of power in this society. Having said that, most of the power resides on Wall Street and in the Military-Industrial-Security complex rather than Silicon Valley corporations. But these Silicon Valley corporations are now rich enough to change the laws. They can crown themselves King with the right kind of manoeuvring, and Arrington here is trying to get them to do so. Petitioning Larry Page or Paul Graham to have a conscience is far more fruitful than voting for the government you want.