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I love how he gets right to the core of the problem: Corruption in the US Govt due to 'Lobbying', which basically boils down to the largest corporations running

• sanderjd 12y ago
  I hate the revolving door as much as the next person, but it's really hard to find people who are both qualified to regulate an industry and completely neutral in their politics and employment history. I'm sure a lot of us would prefer someone with a history of lobbying for net neutrality, but that is only better from a political point of view on our side of the argument, not from an ethical point of view. You can't write a law that says "only hire regulators who agree with John Oliver's and SchizoDuckie's and sanderjd's politics". You can write a law that says "never hire any regulators who have been in any way involved with the industry they are regulating", but would you want to?
• oxalo 12y ago
  Just finished watching that show, and (unrelated) it seems the show puts forth only two sides: you're either accept the corporations lording over you or you're a violent terrorist.
• vaadu 12y ago
  Yes, it's just corporations. Government unions such as the SEIU and NEA have bankrupted US cities and cost US taxpayers billions, and are equally responsible for the corruption.