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Re:Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine S... by kalleboo on Friday August 05, 2016 @07:10AM (#12231341)
Getting 27 countries to agree on something sounds like bureaucracy nightmare to me :)

So, I just looked up the word "bureaucracy" in a dictionary and it says "a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.". I always thought that was what a technocracy was.

The secondary definition is "excessively complicated administrative procedure, seen as characteristic of bureaucracy" which is the only usage I can remember seeing.

Re:Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine S... by malka on Friday August 05, 2016 @07:32AM (#12231436)
Technocracy is more about "experts make the décisions"
Re:Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine S... by marcosdumay on Friday August 05, 2016 @07:47AM (#12231482)
You seem to have a very bad dictionary.

Bureaucracy comes from the French word "bureau", that means office. It names the way things are organized in an office, and was created for private offices, only adopted for governments later.

Re:Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine S... by kalleboo on Friday August 05, 2016 @08:29AM (#12231730)
I'll forward your opinion to the Oxford Dictionary of English
Re:Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine S... by khedoros on Friday August 05, 2016 @02:29PM (#12234716)
The French "bureaucratie" was coined in the 18th century by French economist Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, from French "bureau" (office/desk) + Greek "-kratia" (power of), as a criticism of how government over-regulation can stunt commerce.

It came into English in the early 19th century, carrying a similarly negative connotation. The connotations have shifted back and forth somewhat since then.

Still, it seems that it's never been primarily used to talk about private offices in English or French; the primary use has always referred to governments.