Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominant market position

Re:Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of domin... by philipov on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @07:36AM (#16222207)

That's a naive view of how democracy works in practice. It turns out that elections aren't an efficient market and the "will of the people" is instead dominated by externalities like campaign committees, advertising/propaganda, and lobbyists.

You say you don't think it's healthy to talk that way, but that's backwards. People talk this way because the democracy isn't healthy.

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Re:Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of domin... by bjelkeman-again on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @01:03PM (#16224783)

I haven’t seen many good proposals for reform though. And I am not talking about getting rid of what I consider undemocratic processes in the U.S like gerrymandering, removing capacity to vote (closing I.d card issuing centres etc). But true reform in functional representative democracies.

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Re:Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of domin... by casiotone on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @01:15PM (#16224898)

> I haven’t seen many good proposals for reform though.

You're not reading the right colour books.

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