A sad day for democracy, but this fact restores some faith in dictatorship.

FTFU

Everyone is misreading this comment. OP meant: democracy failed, but the good submissions restore faith in humanity. All the people who wrote in were on the side of common sense.

The people who wrote in do not represent the voting public, they're just a vocal minority. The voting public elected these lawmakers, and will happily re-elect them.

How?

That so many people were against it?

Yea, that's what I meant. At least the people seemed to be overwhelmingly opposed to it, and trying to vote against it. RIP to internet points on that comment, lol.

Yeah, I too, read your comment in the -ve. Thanks for the clarification.

So, yeah, a great day for humanity that didn't want this.

A shitty day for humanity that didn't want this. FTFY.

There was 300ish responses. The tech community and savvy individuals are strongly against it, but the vast majority of people don't care or absolutely don't understand what's at stake here.

As with most deeply technical issues, it is hard to communicate to the general population exactly what the proposed problem and solution is, so the politicians are allowed to freely pass legislation (without understanding it themselves mostly) without much opposition besides the vocal minority.