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Re:Answers to your questions about Apple and security by superuser2 on Monday February 22, 2016 @03:47PM (#11154171)
The democracy is actually working: the small minority of tech industry people who think security and privacy are important are correctly overruled by the majority who don't.

If you think (and it's not crazy) that sometimes small, elite populations know better than the public at large, great, but please don't call that democracy.

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Re:Answers to your questions about Apple and security by rantanplan on Monday February 22, 2016 @05:33PM (#11154869)
You could argue that parliaments are a small elite population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy

This is what we mean when we use the word "democracy" today, unless you live in ancient Greece or some small village.

So having experts on technology,security and privacy being overruled by an uneducated mob is madness, not democracy.

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Re:Answers to your questions about Apple and security by hifier on Monday February 22, 2016 @07:50PM (#11155603)
And this is exactly what the constitution is for. Changing the constitution requires much more than a simple majority.
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