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Re:Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19... by freedomben on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:51PM (#23225845)
In the US, bills (new laws) have to pass both the Senate and the House, and the House is population based. It's a system of checks and balances to ensure that large states and small states don't control each other. In theory, if a particular change is favored by one set and not the other, then it doesn't pass.

In practice it's a little murkier than that, but the way you presented it makes it sound like the system is just stacked to the benefit of the smaller states over the larger, when that is not the case.

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Re:Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19... by scarface74 on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:03PM (#23228918)
Most regulations that are passed are not by law. They are passed by agencies like the FCC, FTC, FDA etc.

So let’s say this mythical law is passed where you give the government more power over private business. The actual execution of the law is going to be carried out by unelected regulatory agencies where your main recourse is unelected judges.

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